Hi, Thanks for your answer.
>biosdevname is now enabled by default on 12.10 alternate/server >installs. I have 13.04 server installation and it works with the old traditional naming scheme. I don't know what is 12.10 alternate/server installs. Regards, Kevin On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 04:27:53PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote: >> I recently moved form Fedora to Ubuntu and I have found many advantages. >> However, I wonder about one question: >> In fedora, for some years now, the device name scheme was changed. >> For example, for network devices, >> instead of using eth0, eth1, etc there is >> em1, em2 for embedded device (built in on the board) >> and p1p1,p2p1, ... for PCI devices which are on the PCI slot. >> >> It is due to a package name biosdevname developed by Dell >> http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/ >> >> also RHE adpoted it. >> >> My question is: I found this new scheme very comfortable. >> Is there a reason that Ubuntu does not use it ? Does Ubuntu intend to >> adopt it? > > We enabled this by default on new server installations since Ubuntu > 12.10. > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035670.html > > -- > Colin Watson [[email protected]] > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
