mount Win partitions

[Eric Beversluis]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 07:33 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 07:41 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 12:12 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 23:59 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Note that Fedora does not support NTFS filesystems "out of the box".
> > > 
> > > See: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/129/65/
> > > 
> > > Paul.
> > 
> > Great! I wonder how many hours of frustration this has caused people
> > over the years who weren't lucky enough to receive this "by the way."
> > Everything I've read and my experience with other distros would lead me
> > never to expect or suspect this.  Nicholas Wells simply says, "Linux
> > supports read access to this file system" (The Complete Guide to Linux
> > System Administration, 186).
> > 
> > This looks like a real pain. So much for even thinking that FC4 might be
> > end-user friendly.
> ----
> User friendly is a relative term.

I'm referring to all the claims that Linux is ready to go "mainstream,"
that ordinary users and businesses can be encouraged to abandon Windows,
etc. Of course, if they abandon Windows this particular issue won't
matter, but there are been several others. Mandirva isn't innocent
either, since the reason I'm doing FC4 is that Mandriva 2006 wouldn't
load because it couldn't find my CDROM drive.
> 
> Not incorporating copyrighted, potentially patent infringing software,
> incompatible license software is another thing. Perhaps you are not
> aware of the differences.
> 
This must be a judgment call, since other distros don't seem to worry
about it. 
> Perhaps also, you are venting frustrations because of what you don't
> know...that's why this list and other things like 'www.fedorafaq.org'
> exist.
> 
I appreciate them greatly. Right now I'm getting emails from 4 different
lists. 

EB
> Craig
>