The locked-down desktop

[Peter]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Howard Gibson wrote:

> On Sat, 14 May 2005 20:02:23 -0400
> Mike Newman <presidentofthefuture-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> * Automounting? The last time that I experimented with this there was
>> something called "supermount" and most users agreed that it was
>> broken.
>
> Automount is only important if the user has more than one computer. 
> Beginners usually do not.  I would not worry about it much.

Automount is THE device that allows anyone to use *nix without 
mount/umount hassles. It is very easy to set up and it works well. It 
allows removable media to be used without mount/umount hassle. Including 
floppies, cdroms, dvd-rom and usb disk-on-key.

Peter
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