[1] After languishing for a few years, the maintenance was picked up by Erez Zadok, who has maintained it since 1993.
The am-utils package which comprises and is included with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
It is also included with a vast number of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core, ASPLinux, Trustix, Mandriva, and others.
It is one of the oldest and more portable automounters available today, as well as the most flexible and the most widely used.
[citation needed] There are a few "side effects" that come with files that are mounted using automounter, these may differ depending on how the service was configured.