Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 00:29 -0500, amon wrote: > > > Ralf replies: > > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:37:45 -0500, amon wrote: > > > So my question is, how do you make that userland automounter recognize > > > that the disk is just not up for grabs? It does not seem to even > > > look at cryptab or fstab

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread amon
Ralf replies: On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:37:45 -0500, amon wrote: So my question is, how do you make that userland automounter recognize that the disk is just not up for grabs? It does not seem to even look at cryptab or fstab for a hint. The appropriate mailing list for a user question, is the user

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:10:18 +0200, Xen wrote: >I would never allow unmaintained kernel updates on any system. If >there's nobody there to fix it, don't update it. Many other things can >go wrong too, but... booting is most important. This thread is a PITA. Stop spreading this FUD! Ubuntu allows

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread amon
Xens says: 2) I would love a feature in which I could add a blkid to fstab such that if I plug that particular USB or other storage device into my machine, that instead of mounting in /media/user/diskname, it would mount just like any other disk would at boot time. I do this all the

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Xen
Tom H schreef op 11-10-2016 22:36: What I mean by maintain is make sure that updates are installed, just like on Windows and macOS. Aye. To me it is a detriment. I used to turn Windows Update off completely for years while I was running XP and 7. For me the incessant updates are only a dist

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Xen wrote: > Tom H schreef op 11-10-2016 16:52: >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Xen wrote: I'll reply quickly to the beginning and read and reply to the rest tomorrow. >>> That's not really true. The vast majority of people would go screaming >>> for a Win

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologies, I know, I shouldn't have replied again, but it's hard to resist ;). -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:27:18 +0200, Xen wrote: >Tom H schreef op 11-10-2016 16:52: >> From skimming of this thread, it seems to me that you might be trying >> to work against the system in order to achieve your goal rather than >> use the tools that are provided, like people who run "chattr -i >> /

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Xen
Tom H schreef op 11-10-2016 16:52: On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Xen wrote: That's not really true. The vast majority of people would go screaming for a Windows or Mac PC if they had Linux preinstalled. The level of system maintenance I would have to give to my family for a Linux box is ab

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Xen wrote: > > That's not really true. The vast majority of people would go screaming > for a Windows or Mac PC if they had Linux preinstalled. > > The level of system maintenance I would have to give to my family for > a Linux box is about 95%. Please don't extra