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Re: [LUG] Re: LUG Stuff...



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Julian Hall wrote:
| On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:38, Julian Hall wrote:
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| I have to say Linux does not seem to handle CD swapping as tidily as
| Windows does, as this approach seems quite messy.

The underlying model is that CD has a file system, and filesystems all
need to be mounted/unmounted, so it locks the CD in to prevent
filesystems in use from being removed.

If you use one of the GUI desktops you can get a desktop icon to
mount/umount/eject the CD.

Most distro's also install a default "automount" a new CD entry in
/etc/fstab these days, some autoplay audio CDs.

So you can get almost any behaviour you like, my guess is the authors of
the CD didn't want to try and do it for you because behaviour varies
between distro's.

I think it is all what you get use to, I get annoyed when Windows tries
to use a floppy or CD that isn't there any more and takes eternity to
time out, or tells me to insert a floppy/CD because some GUI component
vaguely remembers it looked at that device last time it ran. In contrast
Linux behaves exactly like every *nix system since the year dot (or 1974
(?) anyway, long before CDs ;-).
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