[GFK_of_xmaspast]

" auto-mounting of usb drives out of the box, that's because no sane programmer would want that by default."

I plug in usb sticks all the time and of course I expect them to automount on linux just like on the other OSs I use on a daily basis. (and I was very annoyed last week to discover that my linux machine did not auto-mount a sdcard, and I had better things to do than start troubleshooting it)