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Mount Rainier for Linux

Posted by michael on from the almost-close-enough-to-touch dept.

Cpyder writes: "Seems like Philips is getting the "patents are bad"-picture, as they have decided to let Linux support the Mount Rainier next-generation file device system. Seems like the end of floppies+zips+cdrw+whatever is finally in sight. Check it out at The Reg."

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  1. TuxPod by LazyDawg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why doesn't the Linux/OSS community come up with an embedded, tiny-ass Linux hard drive like the iPod, with some simple GUI-and-pen based features, a 6 or 20 gig drive, firewire and not much else. We could greatly increase the establishment of Linux by having it up for sale to desktop users, and M$ won't be able to make quips about usability anymore.

    Of course, having Linux in just another file server is nice too, I guess.

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  2. And we still wonder why Linux isn't catching on by sielwolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From the article: Mount Rainier is needed because CD-RWs "are still too complicated to use for most users," says Philips' Eggert Gudmundsson.
    This is frustrating because either:
    a) End users are actually this technologically primitive or...
    b) End users aren't but the Big Heads think they are and so we still get screwed!

    I TA a CS course for freshman non-CS engineers at a Big Ten and, in my humble experience, the biggest problem is the perceived learning curve hurdle these kids have. Most just too easily throw their hands up in defeat and spout some slogan ("I'll never get these things" or "Only like ten people will need this stuff anyway"). But then you find that after they can break through the first through layers of syntax the class becomes pretty much hands off.

    You know what? I think my Mom could use Debian.

    Ok Ok. I know this post is OT as all get out but, c'mon, its 9:30 in the morning and I can't sleep!

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  3. And for more info on the real Mt. Rainier by libertynews · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For those interested in the mountain behind (or above, being the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States at 14,412 feet) go take a look at the Mount Rainier National Park Homepage. Its a beautiful place (I grew up there, my dad was a Park Ranger (look at his page for more pics of the mountain).

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  4. Changelog? by Compunerd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have anyone seen the changelog?


    The only thing I can find at ftp.kernel.org
    is the changelog for 2.2.19...


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