Inspired by another minimum-context post elsewhere. See how confusing that can be?

Back in the day (and yes, I really did just use that phrase), having removable devices show up on your Linux desktop when you attached them to the box, or inserted media into them if they were already attached, was amazing stuff. Hell, it was practically magic. One of the ways we did that was with something called, appropriately, magicdev.

It is not, and has never been, "the automounter". Most of the magicdev stack is obsolete, no longer maintained, and not shipped (except, I guess, in older versions of enterprise-targeted distributions). The automounter is actively maintaned, shipped, used, and supported. Today.