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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Another Press Mention
From:       Frugal <frugal () fysh ! org>
Date:       1998-07-03 7:15:34
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Steve Hutton wrote:
> 
> Frugal wrote:
> > http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1998/06/cov_26feature.html
> > http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/reviews/1998/06/26review.html
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, these are good articles.  I noticed the author
> tried a VA Research machine with KDE pre-installed!  Nice to see Linux
> tested on a more level playing field...

The first time I have seen an article where Linux was pre-installed thus
cutting out 90% of peoples problems.

> Interesting quote 2:
> 
>         To access the files on a CD-ROM in a Unix
>         system, one must first "mount" the CD-ROM.
>         KDE offered no obvious way to do this. In the end,
>         I had to retreat to a command prompt and type in
>         an arcane string of commands sure to be utterly
>         unintelligible to a Windows 95 user. I enjoyed
>         solving the problem -- which, to a Unix
>         aficionado, would have been quite trivial. But
>         accessing the CD-ROM should not require typing
>         "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt."
> 
> I must confess that I always use mount myself.  Does
> KDE provide anything for mounting the CDRom? (I know there
> is Kfloppy) If not, this guy has a point...

KDE does not provide a facility for mounting and unmounting devices by
default. You can set up the kdelink files by right clicking on the root
window and selecting new->Device.

However it would be pointless to put a device kdelnk for the CD in by
default as most people don't have CDRoms (i.e. people on Sun boxes and
XTerms). Even with RedHat the default is for root to be the only person
who can access /dev/cdrom, there is not even a mountpoint put in for it
by default (at least on 5.0).

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