[techtalk] request for ideas

[Vinnie Surmonde]

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jim Browning wrote:

> Sorry, but I disagree. Having played with DOS, Win 3.1, Win 3.11, Win95,
> Win98, C, C++, Visual C++ and Visual Basic, rebuilt several computers from
> the motherboard up, and installed more drivers and configured more dip
> switches (remember them?) than I care to count, the idea that an operating
> system has to be told that a disk has been inserted into a drive is strange,
> at the least. I'm planning on looking at (installing, etc.) Linux. It would
> appear Linux has quirks that would not be apparent to those coming at it
> from a personal computer angle (as contrasted with the Unix angle).

yeah, but the advantages outweight the disadvantages (IMO, of course) --
no more accidently popping the disk before it's all written to, or waiting
to finish typing while something takes up all the resources getting
something written to floppy (which is painfully slow, compared with modern
HDs, or even network stuff)

properly configured automounting fixes this, if you prefer (I don't, but I
do understand why others might)

rumour has it that most of the current big distros have this as part of
the standard install..since I don't often do *standard* installs, I don't
know this for sure...I haven't met one that won't accept it after install,
however.

Vinnie
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