[olug] Distro Thoughts

John Moran bugs.moran at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 14:20:51 UTC 2006


My experience with removable media has been the same - no trouble at all.

And, with the help of "Automatix", all of the media player problems
have been taken care of as well. 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563

On 2/15/06, Matthew D. McCain Platte <plattem at inetnebr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 04:23 -0800, Joe Gulizia wrote:
>
> > I've been using Ubuntu and Kubuntu 5.10 but can't
> > access floppies or other external media (hard drives).
> > I'd stay with Kubuntu if all users could access the
> > drives and I could get media players to work in it.
> > (See other post "Re:  Kubuntu and accessing floppy and
> > external drives" posted on February 14, 2006).
>
> I switched from Suse 9.something to Ubuntu 4.10 precisely *because* the
> removable media support in the brown distro works out-of-the-box for
> non-root users.  CD-ROM, Floppy, USB - they all work as advertised.
> Heck, now I can even burn a CD without seeking help from a teenager!
>
> --
> -------^.^--
> Matthew Platte
> Lincoln Nebraska
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