[clue-tech] upstart

Jed S. Baer cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net
Tue Sep 9 18:35:23 MDT 2008


On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:01:57 -0600
Collins Richey wrote:

> I don't remember all the details, but I think the creation of /media
> in place of /mnt is the fault of the LFS bunch. For some reason, they
> wanted to promote /mnt as a single, temporary mount point, instead of
> a directory like the new /media. It wan't broke, and they fixed it
> <grin>.

Really? I always assumed it was the work of some sort of freedesktop.org
type, or some similar initiative, to make Linux friendlier to n00bs. The
thing is, that the n00bs are most likely going to be looking at whatever
it is using a gui, and could care less what the mount point is.


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