As an example AFAIK Gnome came out first with header bars first but from what I have heard they are well integrated into MacOS (but less consistent).Īnother example is an image based Desktop OS. That also gives it the benefit of being able to move fast. It however comes bundled with hardware, so you dont have to guess whether it works well when you buy it. When comparing interfaces, there are some similarities with some desktop environments, but here days it is often enough that the linux desktop environments came up with the idea first. But as a beneficial side effect, I don’t have to keep track which of my adapters is which: as they all have the same hardware Mac address, the rename will work every time, regardless which adapter is which.Ĭredit: the always excellent Arch Linux wiki.It will do many things better than linux and many things worse. Unfortunately this has to be done on every boot. Because I rename it to something else on the second RPi Zero, there are no more conflicts and we know who sent something, and to whom a response is directed. Upon boot, systemd-networkd will look for a device with the Mac address in the “” section, and rename it, in software, to the Mac address in the “” section. On my first Pi Zero, I create a file called /etc/systemd/network/00-default.link with this content: Īnd on the second, the same file but instead of ending with :01 I have it end with :02.

And when you talk, all three think that you are responding just to them!) (For the non-networking geeks among us, imagine being in a crowded room and wanting to have a conversation, but three people are talking, at the same time, on different subjects, with the exact tone of voice and volume, and not necessarily attempting to talk to you, but you can’t tell which is and which isn’t.

Or all three.īecause if you do that, as I just found out the hard way, mayhem occurs: all three of my adapters have the same Ethernet Mac address! Oh, oh. … as long as you don’t attempt to use two with two Pi Zeros at the same time, on the same Ethernet network. Let’s say you bought three cute little USB-to-Ethernet adapters for your Raspberry Pi Zeros running UBOS.

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