[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux is becoming like Microsoft

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:25:13PM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> and it's not a good thing.  Tried to 'mount -o rw /dev/fd0 
> /media/floppy'.  Mount didn't complain but it mounted it read-only 
> except to root.  Edited fstab and rebooted, my changes "auto-magically" 
> disappeared.  Seems fstab-sync (a.k.a fstab-borg - you have been 
> assimilated, resistance is futile) is the culprit.  30 minutes of 
> reading later I find I need to learn something about XML and the 
> less-than-obvious HAL vocabulary to make modifications.  I could just 
> disable fstab-sync but I try to go with the newer technology just to 
> keep up.  However, these politically-correct-isms are irritating.

Out of curiosity -- what distro are you running?  Often
configuration items like this are actually specific to a
distro, as opposed to being a problem with "Linux" generally.

Pm