A New Wireless Daemon Is In Development To Potentially Replace wpa_supplicant

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A New Wireless Daemon Is In Development To Potentially Replace wpa_supplicant

In addition to the BUS1 presentation, also exciting from the systemd.conf 2016 conference is a thorough walkthrough of a new wireless daemon for Linux being developed by Intel's Open-Source Technology Center...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=New-Linux-Wireless-Daemon

[davidbepo]

it should also come with a better name

[Krejzi]

it should also come with a better name

I'm expecting systemd-wirelessd :|

[computerquip]

I'm expecting systemd-wirelessd :|

If it's under the systemd umbrella, why not?

[M@yeulC]

Well, I hope it will work well with multi user configurations, since he talked about remembering everything. Just don't forget user compartmentalization.

[rabcor]

About freakin time...

[c117152]

Enterprise wifi without an SSL library... Oh my...

[ElectricPrism]

I'm expecting systemd-wirelessd :|

At least it would be predictable. I mean - we wouldn't want Linux CLI to be predictable and easy to remember right? Why not complicated and 10 million conflicting naming schemas. /sarcasm

[Dick Palmer]

it should also come with a better name

nsa-trojand?

[ptrwis]

This is not under systemd umbrella but 38:16 is the perfect reason to fork it ;> (and rename)