[ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Björn Fischer]

Lorenzo wrote:

>>I read a couple of opinions which disliked drive letters.
>>When time goes by, we shuld think of a nice alternative
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>Hmm I really don't understand people concerned with drive letters. Actually,
>one of the main reasons a lot of people dislike Linux and Unix is the lack
>of drive letters and their crappy, monolithic file system. So, long life to
>drive letters!
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>Lorenzo
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In fact I'm someone who dislikes driveletters (please don't beat me ;-). 
I like the Unix-style filesystem. I also like the Unix paradigma that 
everything is treated like a file. By this you have a unique way to 
access files, devices and everything else.

The same is with mounting drives somewhere in the file-tree. I think 
this way of drive access is much more elegant than assigning a letter to 
each drive. Has anybody ever tried what happens whe trying to use 27 
devices under Windows? Will it use two letters then? Or numbers?

I think drive letters are a relict from old DOS times. And now that 
anybody is used to it there's no need to replace it by a better solution 
(because people don't like to throw away what they understood once and 
what they got used to).

Greetings

Björn