Choices should be provided to the users.
For laptops/workstations perhaps consider connman and optional wicd?
Towards servers could be different I guess...
Guess that good documentation is one of the main criterias

On 27 December 2014 5:54:40 AM ACST, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Dec 2014, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
>
>> which alternative to NetworkManager do you suggest ?
>
>connman. best substitute also with its widget connman-ui-gtk
>
>its a very pleasant piece of software actually, written by a programmer
>at Intel. the CLI version also offers an interactive console for
>network
>operations. I'm very happy with it, thanks to Gabriele Zaverio once
>again for recommending it to me when I was also desperate about
>network-manager for reasons beyond the systemd dependency.
>
>ciao
>
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