14 DAY TRIAL // We reported a couple of weeks ago that Martin Pitt, a renowned Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee, proposed the implementation of stateless persistent network interface names in the next major versions of the Ubuntu and Debian operating systems.
On June 17, Martin Pitt informs us that stateless persistent network interface names have now been enabled by default in the current development release of the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Linux operating system. The implementation was done via the udev 220-6ubuntu2 package and it will not affect upgrades, but only new installations.
"With udev 220-6ubuntu2 that just landed in wily this is implemented. As discussed, this won't affect upgrades, just fresh installations," says Martin Pitt. "This will likely uncover some places that hardcodes "eth0" and the like which haven't been triggered by biosdevname yet. I also unseeded biosdevname from platform.wily's installer seed."
With this announcement, Canonical confirms the fact that the upcoming version of its popular free operating system, Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), will have stateless persistent network interface names enabled by default for new installations. The new functionality will also arrive in the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch) distribution.