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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> writes: |
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>> Hmm, "Not commonly used", don't know. First versions of autofs date back to |
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>> April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in Linux, |
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>> it's there for over a decade now. |
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> At nearly 70, I can call a decade `fairly recent'. |
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Quite honestly, your age is irrelevant in this context. |
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> Linux is much older than 1997... |
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Not at all. Linus made his first announcement in August 1991. The first |
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files appeared on |
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the Internet in September 1991. It wasn't an operating system at that point. |
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> The newbies like me were definitely not using it.... linux then took much |
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> more config than it does today... even on gentoo today. You could easily |
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> spend 2 or more wks getting X up... or even getting it to boot. |
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Hmm. Most of the people who used (actually, played with because it |
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wasn't a usable operating |
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system until much later) Linux in the early days came from Minix. |
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Remember that? Newbies |
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to Linux were not newbies to computers and operating systems. Far from |
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it, most were pretty |
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adept DOS hackers. |
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> Building your own kernel was well out of the grasp of newbies at that |
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Definitely not. |
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> So in that atmosphere... its not true that automount was in common use. |
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You seem to have entirely forgotten what Linux actually was in the |
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1990s. It was actually a hacker's |
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paradise. There were NO newbies in the sense of people who were new to |
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computers using Linux. The |
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very nature of Linux users in those days was that they were |
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experimental, had some (if not considerable) |
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knowledge and were keen to try any new gizmo that came along and, if |
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there wasn't one, develop their |
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own. Indeed, that's exactly how and why Linux is where it is now. |
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FWIW, I have been involved with computers one way or another since 1969 |
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(a few months before Man |
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set foot upon the moon). |
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Be lucky, |
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Neil |
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http://www.neiljw.com |
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