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Author: Dave Turner
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New-Topics: [DNG] That one unsupported app: was Predictable Network Interface Names - Stupid or good idea?
Subject: Re: [DNG] Predictable Network Interface Names - Stupid or good idea?
Slackware is hard work when you have been used to the ease of debian for
so many years...
Eventually it all worked OK until one particular bit of music
composition software I like to use could only be found in Slackbuilds,
and it would not install even after I did some editing of the scripts.
I gave up and installed devuan again.

DaveT

On 09/01/16 15:26, Marlon Nunes wrote:
> On 2016-01-09 11:42, Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 12:41:27 +0100
>> Anto <aryanto@???> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
> [snip]
>> First of all, some of the most anti-systemd distros, like Void and
>> Gentoo and Funtoo, use the new naming convention. Second, once you
>> really know the new ip command (and forget the old ifconfig stuff), you
>> can pretty much figure everything out. For instance, let's say you're
>> an unlucky soul who has an unfathomable broadcom wifi in his laptop,
>> and rather than becoming the king of blacklisting and exotic drivers,
>> you use a dongle. You could run this command very early in your boot,
>> so that you always know the device name of the dongle and can put it
>> into your shellscripts:
>
> So ENTER the - S L A C K W A R E Linux - where Everything works the
> same nice way as always, since 1993 end beyond:
> ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt
>
>