--- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Globe Trotter wrote: > > --- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Globe Trotter wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I was wondering if there are any plans of getting a F7 with xfce just as > >> there > >>> are for gnome and KDE? I guess I would be interested because XFCE is > light > >> on > >>> the resources: the current way of installing fedora and xfce does not > work, > >>> because you get a lot of gnome junk regardless of whether you choose to > >> install > >>> it or not. > >>> > >>> Any plans on making life simpler in F7? Sort of like xubuntu: I am > >> interested > >>> because the response of xubunut vis-a-vis ubuntu is something to be seen > to > >> be > >>> believed! > >> This are no plans to as of now. If you are interested you can join > >> fedora-devel list and start working on it. > >> > > > > Or go to xubuntu, i guess. Fedora seems to be in serious backward pedal: > note > > that they got rid of automount and editing of removable media in /etc/fstab > for > > absolutely no reason, except to make it only for fluffy users, not people > doing > > serious computing. > > This has nothing to do with XFCE based spin. Auto mount devices works > fine for me on FC6. If it doesn't work for you file a bug report. I mentioned editing of /etc/fstab. There seems to be no problems with any of the other distributions. This really affects programs which have to read from removable media, since it is all lottery nowadays! Best, trotter > Mangling /etc/fstab to do automatic mounting of devices had several > problems described in detail in hal list in freedesktop.org amoung other > places. > > Rahul > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
