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Ethernet Interface Naming With Systemd

Systemd has a new way of specifying names for Ethernet interfaces as documented in systemd.link(5). The Debian package should keep working with the old 70-persistent-net.rules file, but I had a problem with this that forced me to learn about systemd.link(5).

Below is a little shell script I wrote to convert a basic 70-persistent-net.rules (that only […]

Unikernels

At LCA I attended a talk about Unikernels. Here are the reasons why I think that they are a bad idea:

Single Address Space

According to the Unikernel Wikipedia page [1] a significant criteria for a Unikernel system is that it has a single address space. This gives performance benefits as there is no need […]

Compatibility and a Linux Community Server

Compatibility/interoperability is a good thing. It’s generally good for systems on the Internet to be capable of communicating with as many systems as possible. Unfortunately it’s not always possible as new features sometimes break compatibility with older systems. Sometimes you have systems that are simply broken, for example all the systems with firewalls that block […]