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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Again - UI
From:       "Tomas Furmonavicius" <f1926 () kaunas ! aiva ! lt>
Date:       2000-04-19 18:56:56
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 02:33:49PM -0400, Philip Rackus wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> I have been teaching newbies how to use and understand Linux and Unix for ... well, \
> lets just say its been a while.  I know that most people new to linux/unix have a \
> very hard time understanding the concept of mounted filesystems - especially if \
> they come to us from the MS windows world.  I always thought that it would be \
> helpful to have a separate icon to indicate a different partition in the file \
> manager (konqueror).  Like a directory folder only unique enough to indicate a \
> separate drive partition.
> 

No !

Unix directory tree can be distributed across different hardware
devices and even different machines with different architectures and
with different filesystems _transparently_ to the user. If it's too hard
for the user to understand this concept, (s)he should use different OS.

Tomas


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