[clue-tech] upstart

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 22:25:35 MDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jed S. Baer <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I used the wrong acronym - it's LSB not LFS.

-- 
Collins Richey
 If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
 of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.


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