From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 13:25:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3DDE106564A for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 13:25:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mvoorhis@eressea.wpi.edu) Received: from mail1.wpi.edu (MAIL1.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3EE8FC1F for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 13:25:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mvoorhis@eressea.wpi.edu) Received: from mcafee.wpi.edu (MCAFEE.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.86]) by mail1.wpi.edu (8.14.3.Gamma0/8.14.3.Gamma0) with SMTP id m4ECx8Cm000852; Wed, 14 May 2008 08:59:08 -0400 Received: from (130.215.36.186) by mcafee.wpi.edu via smtp id 6b46_8a5a30ee_21b5_11dd_93d4_0013725b2d50; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:59:07 -0300 Received: from eressea.wpi.edu (ERESSEA.WPI.EDU [130.215.29.46]) by SMTP.WPI.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4ECx8wH011525; Wed, 14 May 2008 08:59:08 -0400 (envelope-from mvoorhis@eressea.wpi.edu) Received: from eressea.wpi.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eressea.wpi.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4ECx421029601 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 May 2008 08:59:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mvoorhis@eressea.wpi.edu) Received: (from mvoorhis@localhost) by eressea.wpi.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m4EBY40v095276; Wed, 14 May 2008 07:34:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mvoorhis) From: Michael Voorhis MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18474.52780.461861.985895@eressea.wpi.edu> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 07:34:04 -0400 To: Bruce M Simpson In-Reply-To: <4826E7C9.9030407@incunabulum.net> References: <4826E7C9.9030407@incunabulum.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.93, clamav-milter version 0.93 on eressea.wpi.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on eressea.wpi.edu Cc: FreeBSD stable Subject: Automounting USB sticks - questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mvoorhis@cs.wpi.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:25:03 -0000 >>>>> "bms" == Bruce M Simpson writes: bms> It would be great if we could ship FreeBSD out of the box, ready bms> to automount removable media. This would be useful to all users, bms> but particularly for novices and people who just wanna get on bms> and use the beast. I think this would be nice, so long as it isn't enabled by default. I've always enjoyed how FreeBSD shuns the feature-creep that infects other operating systems. Wouldn't it also be nice to have automatic printer discovery, automatic WEP/WPA network setup via a nice GUI, etc etc. FreeBSD's documentation is really wonderful, and newbies should be encouraged to read the rich documentation to find out how to (among other things) enable automounting. They'll find out many other great things on the way. Mike V.