distro-independence of NetworkManager?

[Derek Broughton]

Tony Yarusso wrote:

> I would like to write up a doc about how to access my university's
> wireless network on Linux, to complement the PDFs they already have for
> Windows and Mac.  It is a WPA2 network, so N-M is probably the best way to
> handle it.  However, I don't know how far across the Linux spectrum N-M
> spreads.  Can someone confirm what other distros have it, and anything you
> know about differences in graphical frontends?

I believe it's default in FC5 and SuSE and available in Ubuntu, Debian and
Gentoo.  All of them provide front-ends via Gnome (nm-applet) or KDE
(knetworkmanager), so the obvious differences are more between the major
desktops than between the distros.  The big difference: the debian/ubuntu
patch that ignores wireless interfaces configured
in /etc/network/interfaces.
-- 
derek