From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 19:44:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6638106564A for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851958FC08 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-65-8.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.65.8]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481473C918; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:44:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n5IJiYeB002271; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:44:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:44:34 +0200 From: Polytropon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20090618214434.4f18f9a8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090618153022.067e8fe5@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20090618093816.6e08b3cd@scorpio.seibercom.net> <90f0a2770906181109k1b506da9k57b969a532d96c45@mail.gmail.com> <20090618153022.067e8fe5@scorpio.seibercom.net> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Unable to auto-mount a CD in XFCE4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:44:42 -0000 On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:30:22 -0400, Jerry wrote: > Thanks, that works. In retrospect, 99% of PC users insert a CD and it > just 'works'. Why can't FreeBSD make it that simple? Because it is already doing it simple. Personally, I find myself often putting in a CD and NOT wanting to do something with it right now. Then any kind of forced interaction would be annoying. FreeBSD keeps it right in my opinion: Keep to the OS what is the OS's stuff, and leave everything optional to modular parts, such als HAL or DBUS. What should, in your opinion, happen? Mounting the disc to a predefined directory? Which one? What if it isn't a ISO-9660 disc, but a UFS or tar or "plain" disc? What if the disc is empty, should a CD recording applicaion be launched? Which one should it be? If two discs are put into two different drives (a situation common if you want to copy a disc 1:1), what should happen then? What if the order of puttin in the two discs is vice versa? If it is a rewritable disc, mount it rw? What if it gets popped out right after that (because it was the wrong disc), what should the OS do? When there's something executable on the disc, should it be executed right now? Maybe with root privileges, just to be sure? If there's more than one executable, should all of the executables be launched? If there are documents on it, should they be automatically opened? By which programs? If there's an installer for some program on the disc, should the application be installed automatically? Should the content of the disc be indexed right away, because this could be needed sometimes in the future? If you can answer these and many following questions, you are on your way on making FreeBSD being just like everything else that "just works" - like "Windows". :-) FreeBSD is acting determinable: It does exactly what you tell it to do, by commands or by preconfiguration. This is a big strength, you always can predict what will happen. Have you ever thought about using PC-BSD? It is very convenient for 99% of the users you described, and still a FreeBSD system. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...