====== Linux distributions ======

This is intended to hold links/cache-copies of public documentation relating to Linux distributions (especially desktop and server). Especially this would mean that documentation pertaining to, e.g., Android (which runs on a Linux kernel but with a completely unique user-land), would be misplaced, here.

===== General =====

Although these documentation pages are hosted by a specific Linux distribution (like Debian, Arch, ...), they seem to convey generally useful information.

==== NIC renaming, aka no more eth0 unless net.ifnames=0 ====

[[https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames]]:

> The simple way of disabling the whole current interface naming scheme (which you might want to try for one-off testing) is just to boot with the kernel parameter ''net.ifnames=0'', which can be set in an interactive grub session at boot or made persistent by editing ''/etc/default/grub'' and running ''update-grub''.
>
> Alternatively, you can override ''/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link'', with a custom version in ''/etc/systemd/network/'', ...