On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:39:58AM -0500, Tom H wrote
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> 
> > Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one
> > ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. Now the name
> > varies in each machine depending on the motherboard layout; oogabooga11?
> > foobar42? It may be static, but you don't know what it'll be, without
> > first booting the machine. In a truly Orwellian twist, this "feature"
> > is referred to as "Predictable" Network Interface Names. It only makes
> > things easier for corporate machines acting as gateways/routers, with
> > multiple ports. Again, the average home user is being jerked around for
> > a corporate agenda.
> 
> Do "regular" home users know the name of the NIC that they're using?!

  I meant the "regular" home users of linux, e.g. people in this forum.

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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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