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Seems reasonable to me. The USB floppy driver is still maintained, which is the only thing I've seen a floppy in for the past ten years. Anything older than tha
by AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
Seems reasonable to me. The USB floppy driver is still maintained, which is the only thing I've seen a floppy in for the past ten years. Anything older than that is likely running a 32-bit processor and is being dropped by most Linux distros anyway.
- einpoklum 7y agoInternal floppy drives have been on sale in many countries until... 8 years ago if not less. There are at least two PCs at my parents' place with working floppy drives. There are innumerable old PCs now used as server machines or donated to charity with working floppy drives. Also, regarding 32-bit distributions - Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Gentoo, Slackware, and many of their derivatives are available for 32-bit x86 machines and AFAIK there is no plan to drop support for that platform anytime soon. So, no, it is _not_ reasonable for Linux not to have a maintained floppy driver. Perhaps in 10 or 15 years' time.
- phoobahr 7y agoGreat - I await your patches.