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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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