Re: Automounter in KDE
> I've already did it in 1995 or so :)
Sorry it was win'95, DOS was in '89. :)
------- Original message -------
From: serja <mekoc@inbox.ru>
To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE
Date: 11 Август 2005 21:19
> About multiuser OS theory I've read in suse faq:
> Q: why can't I simply remove the CD from drive without umount it first?
> A: because it's a multiuser OS and if you simply remove the CD without
> umounting it first the other users can't read it!
> ***
> Isn't it an excuse rather that theory? :)
> And whats happen if I umount it first and that remove? For other users the
> result will be the same. :)
>
> > You may want to give DOS a try.
>
> I've already did it in 1995 or so :)
>
> ------- Original message -------
> From: Christian Surlykke <christian@surlykke.dk>
> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE
> Date: 11 Август 2005 21:01
>
> > Ah. So you think kernel developers should drop the multiuser OS theory.
> > Interesting point.
> >
> > You may want to give DOS a try.
> >
> > br. Chr.
> >
> > On Thursday 11 August 2005 20:58, serja wrote:
> > > read carefully - I wrote: "Linux kernel" not Linux OS :)
> > > 99,9% of GNU software build around the Linux kernel, so those
> > > applications will be useless without Linux kernel.
> > > Everything depend on developers from kernel.org. If they finally drop
> > > the multiuser OS theory, then probably things will change.
> > >
> > > ------- Original message -------
> > > From: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
> > > To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE
> > > Date: 11 Август 2005 20:45
> > >
> > > > On Thursday 11 August 2005 01:22 pm, serja wrote:
> > > > > > GNU doesn't have a problem with removable media. Linux, the
> > > > > > kernel, sucks for removable media. And until the kernel devs get
> > > > > > out of the 1970s, that's not going to change.
> > > > >
> > > > > but the problem is that GNU is nothing without Linux kernel.
> > > > > And things with removable media should be done on kernel side.
> > > >
> > > > I won't argue the first point. I was merely clarifying that the
> > > > problem is not with "Linux the system", how 99% of the world uses the
> > > > word "Linux", but with "Linux the kernel", the specific piece of
> > > > software available on kernel.org.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42
> > > > larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012
> > > >
> > > > "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
> > > > exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an
> > > > idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps
> > > > it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into
> > > > the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess
> > > > himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
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