Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/15/07, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> David Fletcher wrote:
>
> >>As to flash disks, which were mentioned,
> >>mine have always worked perfectly -
> >>if one didn't come up automatically I'd put it down to a temporary glitch.
> >>I certainly wouldn't change distributions because of that.
> >>That seems to me a bit like selling a house because a bulb has gone.
> >
> > Well, I like my backups. Backups are more than nice, they're essential.
> >
> > But they're no damn good to anybody if they can't be copied off the
> > machine onto some sort of media that can be carried off site.
>
> If I understood correctly, the original claim was not that flash disks
> did not work, but that it did not come up automatically when plugged in.
> This doesn't seem very significant to me.


In KDE at least, the USB drives "popup" just fine.



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