A Red Hat rant for today...

Question: How to mount removable media in RHEL5 when not on console?

#Aug 13 2007: crap. apparently fstab-sync was too usefull so they removed it. Now, when you put in a CD, linux pops up an X window asking if you want to mount the CD. Even if you say yes, it doesn't acutally mount it, you can just access it in a file browser thingy. FUCK HEADS! This is UNIX not Windows. I might not actually be on the goddamned X console. Under rh9 we used updfstab, under rhel4 we used fstab-sync, now with rhel5 we are S.O.L.?

#Sep 7 2007: apparently, gnome-mount may be the replacement in a very much more complicated way. *fuckers*

#Nov 16 2007: sadly, I cannot figure out how to use gnome-mount. not surprising, as it is version 0.5. Way to use "not ready for prime time" software. Morons. Maybe I could install fstab-sync.

#Dec 6 2007: according to the Making Hardware Just Work paper which motivated the HAL project, "The desktop environment allows the user to interact with the device in device-appropriate ways." This says to me they expect things to work Like Windows with a single-user perspective and colsole GUIs instead of like UNIX with a multi-user perspective and CLIs. Sadly, it appears that Linux is taking another step twords becoming Windows.