Woohoo!!!

[Tom Achtenberg]

Tried that a long time ago.  It doesn't work.

IMHO until they fix things like accessing CD's and floppy drives to make it completely automatic, Linux will never compete with Windows for the desktop market.  It simply is not user friendly enough for the normal user.

-----Original Message-----
From: Isaac Sparrow [mailto:isaac.sparrow@visicomp.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:42 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Woohoo!!!


Type this to mount the floppy:
 mount /mnt/floppy

--Isaac

On Wednesday 21 November 2001 09:58 pm, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> I'm using RH 7.2  Can't get much more current than ahta.  Neither CD or
> Floppy automounted.  The CD will only mount if I have a data not an audio
> CD in it and I have yet to get the floppy to mount.
>
> On Wednesday 21 November 2001 07:58 pm, you wrote:
> > Most current distributions auto-mount the cd and the floppies for you.
> >
> > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 19:08, you wrote:
> > > If MS is so bad and Linux is so great, how come I am having and had so
> > > much trouble mounting the floppy, cdrom and second hard drive and can't
> > > get printers to work on the network.  All of that happened almost
> > > automatically with the Windows boxes.  Maybe after I spend a bunch of
> > > time learning Linux it will be easier but at this time it is a very
> > > user unfriendly system.
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 06:46 pm, you wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > > I won't join in the thought that their software stinks -
> > > > > it doesn't - there are some excellent features and they do keep
> > > > > improving it and they usually work backwards and actually implement
> > > > > base features by the second or third update/service release/service
> > > > > pack.
> > > >
> > > > </snip>
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry. I know for a fact that MS software stinks. Sure there
> > > > might be some individual applications from MS that run fine, but as a
> > > > whole their software stinks. By software I also include the operating
> > > > system.
> > > >
> > > > Some examples:
> > > >
> > > > The operating system (Win XP) sometimes refuses to recognize the usb
> > > > mouse when starting the system. Never happens on my linux box.
> > > >
> > > > Win XP reboots the machine out of the blue (who knows why). My Linux
> > > > box never does that...
> > > >
> > > > Internet Explorer is a security risk (can't be denied).
> > > >
> > > > IIS is a security risk (can't be denied). My apache logs during the
> > > > last NIMDA outbreak were full of attempted IIS exploits. Sure you can
> > > > get a patch from MS, but will it break IIS all together? There first
> > > > patch for NIMDA did just that.
> > > >
> > > > Outlook - need I say anything about this one?
> > > >
> > > > I run Win95/98/NT4/2000/XP in the shop here for testing purposes.
> > > > When it comes to real work I write code on my linux boxes and run
> > > > servers on Solaris.
> > > >
> > > > Speaking of software. Win2k copied their tcp/ip stack code from BSD.
> > > > So that is an example of good software.
> > > >
> > > > As for me, I will not pay money to Microsoft to be their alpha/beta
> > > > tester.
> > > >
> > > > Just my 2 cents worth :)
> > >
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