I read the same article and wondered about the naming at first but
dismissed it (apparently too soon) as just a hyped name since there was
no mention of systemd.

I wonder how long it will be before they get systemd running on our
routers. How amazing that we will finally have one standard across all
devices </sarcasm>.

On Friday, January 20, 2017 8:41 AM, Tomasz Torcz
<tomek@???> wrote:
 
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:59:51AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:22:31 +1300
>> Daniel Reurich <daniel@???> wrote:
>>
>> > On 19/01/17 05:30, Harald Arnesen wrote:
>> > > Hendrik Boom [2017-01-18 16:20]:
>> > >  
>> > >> I this ssomethnig we should be aware of?  It seems someone is
>> in
>> > >> the process of replacing wpa_supplicant and a lot of the tools
>> > >> above it with new software, IWD, the Internet Wifi Daemon.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> https://www.linux.com/news/event/elce/2017/new-linux-wifi-daemon-streamlines-networking-stack
>>  
>> > >
>> > > As I understand it, this is just for Linux, while wpa_supplicant
>> > > works on the BSDs as well. If a cross-platform solution exists,
>> I
>> > > would rather have that.
>> > >  
>> > If it's well implemented I expect that bringing the BSD's on board
>> > will be useful too.  I think that the approach is promising for a
>> > start.
>>
>> I get worried when I hear that some software will "replace" other
>> software, rather than "here's some better software." Sounds a little
>> too Poetteresque to me, and why do I get the feeling Redhat's and
>> FreeDesktop's tenticles will be all over it?
>  Maybe because iwd was initially introduced at systemd.conf 2016?
> https://cfp.systemd.io/en/systemdconf_2016/public/events/22
>
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