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Not on any current Ubuntu LTS (we are talking primarily about servers here).

• sciurus 15y ago
  You still don't need to configure NetworkManager to get a network connection. You can use the old methods (/etc/network/interfaces or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts) instead.
  • lmm 15y ago
    Those are not the old methods - were they ever portable beyond debian? The old method is ifconfig. I don't care about linux any more, but on FreeBSD ifconfig still works, as it has for at least 20 years. If it becomes impossible to use KDE programs without using networkmanager, that will be a real irritation for me.
    • sciurus 15y ago
      /etc/sysconfig is Red Hat. /etc/network is Debian. Of course ifconfig (or better yet, the ip) still work.