FYI my USB sticks are recognized, mounted and opened by Ubuntu 6.10 which may not BE Debian Etchy, but I believe uses a lot of it. On 12/20/06, JT Moree wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Empty wrote: > > All of these are the same example- Debians FOSS-only policy in action. > > http://www.us.debian.org/intro/free > > > > With a Debian machine you have to willfully choose to go outside the > > realm of FOSS. > > Which is part of my point. Another part being that with other distros > that process is easier if you so choose to do so. > > How about a NON Debian policy example. > > USB sticks and automatically showing up when plugged in: I haven't used > etch so I don't know how much progress has been made on this front > lately but most other distros setup hotplug and udev to make this work a > long time ago. (Has Debian even moved to udev yet? They had just > gotten devfs into the installer 2 yrs ago when the kernel developers > deprecated it.) > > Sarge CAN do auto-mount of usb if I spend a lot of time fixing it after > figuring out what to install myself (again typical of a debian > installation). Last I tried it didn't work after an hour of tweaking. > > Let me re-affirm, Debian is in the right to work this way. I'm not > against it. Debian does not install and configure a ton of extra stuff > because as a developer I want to pick and choose what gets installed. > Have anyone done a minimal install of Fedora lately? It weighs in at > over 800M on FC5. A miminal Debian install is something like 50M. > > I can come up with all sorts of reasons for why I think Debian is for > developers and end users should start with another distro but these are > all just my opinion. Everyone should use what works for them. > - -- > JT Morée > PC Xperience, Inc. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFifb41JwGi/ukQqERAt/KAKDMxPeHNJbo5E6ijGnHUE/A6rdgZgCgljae > sjU2EP+io/RnZVU4vHLerN0= > =ly5t > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss