interesting article, for all those who think Ubuntu is already easy

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Jun 1 01:43:46 BST 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 20:31 -0400, Alexander Cline wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 08:07 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> 
> > OSX I have no idea. 
> 
> OSX just automounts stuff and you access it at the mount point
> in /Volumes.

So it keeps track of the devices it has seen and knows to always mount
the same device at the same mount point?

>  /dev is hidden from userspace.

Isn't it effectively hidden from userspace by the modern Linux desktop
too (with the exception of broken audio apps that still want to
use /dev/dsp)?

Lee




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