Re: biosdevname hitting rawhide

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Michael Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Interesting work, Matt. I'm surprised the Unix purists who would fight 
> you to death to keep sendmail on desktops would allow you to change the 
> almighty eth* naming scheme.

Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network
interfaces based on the manufacturer, at least, for a while now (I
personally started with 7.x and am unsure of when that was new). I was
always curious why eth* was used on Linux actually.

--Ben

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