RE: gmc/libvfs suggestion for removable media

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

As I see it, X and gnome are ment as additions to the unix under it. Not a
replacement. 
example.
windows trashes command.com when it loads and uses its own binary format for
everything. If it needs to run a dos program, it emulates (YuCK) command.com

in X
X is a shell over unix. You can do anything you can do in unix in X. You can
start a program in X and quit X and the program can be still running.

It is the kernels job to handle filesystems so removeable media needs to be
handled there. Someone needs to fix up the kernel to handle removeable media
better... not gnome.

Making gnome an operating system within an operating system is the beggining
of the end. (Look at windows 95)



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Burrows [SMTP:Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 23, 1999 4:36 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: gmc/libvfs suggestion for removable media
> 
> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:56:39PM +0100, Matthias Warkus was heard to
> say:
> > 
> > ACK. You're completely right.
> > Anyway, who wants to use Unix should learn what buffered I/O is and
> > that stuff needs to be mounted and umounted.
> > 
> > mawa
> 
>   What is the purpose of the Gnome project?  Am I misunderstanding
> something?
> 
> -- 
>   "Cogito, ergo sum."
> 
>   -- Decartes (and the extent of my Latin)
> 
> 
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