On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 08:07:04AM -0500, CAREY SCHUG wrote:
Thank you again Lennart, this ignorant mainframer is slowly being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age.
Did IBM mainframes ever get around to using ascii or are they still ebdbic?
1. Linux (the whole thing, not the kernal) should handle random hardware as well as any major competitiors, at least windows and IOS.
--any commodity devices sold at retail should just work. I
Well given the hardware makers get to write drivers with access to specifications and submit them to Microsoft for automatic install on windows, while Linux developers have to write the drivers themselves, often without access to documentation, I would say that is very much not a fair expectation at all. As for IOS, not sure. Do people regularly connect things to their iphone or ipad? Do they actually work and do anything if they do? Assuming you didn't mean CISCO IOS. Lots of hardware has been made where instead of following the published standard, they just made it work with whatever windows did, which was a subset of the standard or in some cases even potentially in violation of the standard. An OS that actually implemented the standard would then not work with said hardware because it was made wrong. Quite a few drivers in linux have tweaks in them for specific hardware because that hardware didn't correctly follow standards. Someone had to figure that out and implement the workaround. Now for the automounting, certainly some systems will, some won't. https://superuser.com/questions/1775441/usb-stick-without-partition-maybe-bu... says Debian running gnome automounted a USB drive without partitions for them. A beaglebone running Debian but not gnome did not. So it depends on the automounter being used whether it supports recognizing and mounting unpartitioned drives that are inserted. Interestingly it also appears in that post that parted does in fact recognize a drive with just a filesystem. Of course gparted is not parted, it's a gui wrapper around parted and some other utilities. Perhaps gparted just failed to implement support for something parted already did. Or it is a question of the version of parted. Older parted did filesystem stuff, and they decided to remove all that in 3.x releases. Seems someone decided that parted should not do filesystem stuff, only partition stuff. -- Len Sorensen