On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:40:20 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
> daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:32:04PM -0400 : > > > > It's been my personal experience in the past 6 months that devfs is > > totally and completely the spawn of satan. I don't forsee any true > > Satan might like you, but I'm his favorite. -- a coworker > > > usefullness coming from this particular part of Mandrake's inner > > workings other then LOTS of severe user frustration. personally I > > think "IT" should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape > > of so wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from again....EVER! > > On a server where things don't change much, yes. > On a desktop where external drives are being hotplugged via firewire > and USB, it needs to be there or the functionality will not appear on > the desktop without manual configuration. Usability is where it's > headed folks, and making it usable without being a rocket scientist is > what's required for your Grandmother, for you girlfriend's mom, for > the kid down the street, etc. > > Blue skies... Todd (speaking only for himself, > not in any official capacity) Todd, Where I don't dispute the intent I'm having fits with the results. Oh and for my camera and my usb printer. They haven't changed functionality since I got rid of devfs. Maybe because devfs set them up at first. I'm just getting tired of rebooting Linux. James > -- > Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn > Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-19mdk >
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