Mounting partitions, bizare question...

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Wed Jul 13 06:59:44 UTC 2005


> Nice!  One more thing to look forward to in Breezy.
> 
> It's good to know that some of these issues are getting addressed.

> Larry


Yep, Breezy is quite nice. I was kinda disappointed by Hoary, but Breezy
is quite nice, assuming all major current bugs can be fixed within the
next 3 months before release. I think that Breezy will be what I
expected Hoary would be. Not that Hoary was bad at all but Warty was so
good, that I quickly got used to high quality, and unconsciously
suddenly became very demanding... much more demanding than I ever was
with my first distro, Mandrake, as it seemed a lost cause from the
start ! ;-)

To stay on the topic of Nautilus, there is another nice touch I highly
appreciate in Breezy. Now when you right-click on a folder and select
"share", instead of telling you "ERROR !! You must install at least
Samba or NFS support blah blah, I am leaving !", which is very stupid
(if there is no support for file sharing on the machine, how comes the
option is available in Nautilus, for everyone to see ?!), well instead
of this non-sense, now it has become clever(er) and says "Oh, sure Sir,
what service would you like to use, NFS or SMB ? Please click here to
install the relevant services, then let me hold your hand to configure
it quickly".
That make a lot more sense to me, as an average desktop user/human
being !! :o)))
Next nice step would to pre-install said services, after all, so that
you don't have to install stuff in the middle of using Nautilus. But as
it is, it's a already a great step forward in the
user-friendliness/usability department, over Hoary, I find.

There are new GUI system tools, too to configure GRUB, services and hard
disks, they are still in early development, but very promising. I hope
they will work hard on them so that they are ready in time for Breezy.


--
Vince





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