Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/15/07, David Fletcher <fc at fletchersweb.net> wrote:
> At 15:44 15/05/2007, you wrote:
>
> >As to flash disks, which were mentioned,
> >mine have always worked perfectly -
> >if one didn't come up automatically I'd put it down to a temporary glitch.
> >I certainly wouldn't change distributions because of that.
> >That seems to me a bit like selling a house because a bulb has gone.
>
> Well, I like my backups. Backups are more than nice, they're essential.
>
> But they're no damn good to anybody if they can't be copied off the
> machine onto some sort of media that can be carried off site. These
> days, for my purposes, that media is a USB flash drive. Several in
> fact. The first one stays next to the computer. The second gets
> carried around with me in my briefcase. The third lives in my car
> glove box. Occasionally (because the Nokia 6230i only appears to
> support USB1.0 so it's rather slow) I put a copy onto the flash card
> buried in my mobile phone. And sometimes I'll put a copy on one of
> the servers at the office.
>
> I like my backups. So if I can't easily and very reliably take copies
> of my backups, sorry Fedora but that's a show stopper.
>
> Dave


The thing is though, plug and play USB has worked all through FC6


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