IMO it is not enough to say "obsolete documentation, someone should
remove it". Some of us have been using *nix for years (or decades), and
some of these facilities have been developed and stabilized years ago.
We rely on things that used to work to keep working. At the very least,
one should revise old documentation to clarify that some older method
has been "deprecated" (as in java documentation), and the new method
should be referenced, together with conversion methods and/or tools. We
want to build on previous work. We don't want all of our sand castles to
fall down.

In my case, I also find that _netdev does not work on a recent
installation of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (upgraded to .3) on Lenovo D20 (dual
Xeon), but mysteriously it DOES work on a 1 y.o. installation (upgraded
to 14.04.3 LTS) on HP 500-189 (AMD A10). That suggests to me that there
must be some interaction(s) between packages? My old installation has
everything (including the kitchen sink), but my new installation is
rather spare (tho not exactly minimum). What is annoying is I want/need
to NFS mount my /home directories on my new install as well. I will try
autofs (waits longer, delaying during remainder of boot, until I try to
login) instead of hard NFS mount during boot sequence. Still, it is
annoying when things that used to work suddenly stop working.

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