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1️⃣7️⃣ Here's the 17th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd. #systemd257

Linux network interfaces since a longer time have not just a primary name, but any number of additional "alternative" names. Similar semantics apply, but they can be longer and there can be many.

You might know the naming policies that systemd by default applies when picking the (primary) name of hardware network interfaces, to ensure they remain stable, so that the same hw iface is...