Intel’s ConnMan for Linux: Pros and Cons

One of Intel’s latest projects has been creating the Linux-based Moblin platform for netbook devices, on the whole Intel has adopted the standard components used on most Linux distributions, however they have created their own network management and configuration framework, they call their network manager ConnMan.

For everyday users of Moblin this will seem an insignificant change however for Moblin users who have previous experience with Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions this change has some significant impact.

The main issue being a lot of third party apps created for Linux will not be functional in the Moblin environment, these apps would usually be able to diagnose network issues along with the ability to find out a whole list of information regarding network connections, the complete rebuild of the network management system causes Moblin to be inaccessible through these apps.

Whether this is a good or bad thing overall it is yet to be confirmed, personally I feel such a low percentage of people will really use the Operating System for a purpose other then for day to day computer usage that they will not notice the changes and it will only affect the Linux experienced users. Who’s to say that these changes can’t affect the Linux world in a good way. For a deeper look into pros and cons of the ConnMann check out ars technica.

What do you think about Intel’s decision to use their own Network Management framework?

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