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Am Samstag 03 Oktober 2009 20:10:30 schrieb Harry Putnam: |
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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 |
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> > to April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new |
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> > in Linux, 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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> I have to beg to differ here... I don't mean your statements about when |
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> it appeared... |
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> Linux is much older than 1997... and as I said I started a little |
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> before that... At that time there were not many users at all not to |
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> mention users using automounting. I'd hazard a guess that total users |
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> was not much over 150,000 or so... just an idle guess though. |
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I wouldn't even dare to guess :) |
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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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Yeah, I know. I started with Linux roughly one or two years before you did. |
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> Building your own kernel was well out of the grasp of newbies at that |
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> time. |
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Then there must have been two types of newbies ;) |
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> So in that atmosphere... its not true that automount was in common use. |
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As I wrote I don't know. I used it, but again I wouldn't dare to guess how |
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many others did. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |