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I was cleaning out my basement last week and found some 5" floppy disks. It hadn't occurred to me that Linux would drop support.
by markstos 7y ago
I was cleaning out my basement last week and found some 5" floppy disks. It hadn't occurred to me that Linux would drop support.
- romwell 7y agoFloppy drives get first class support on Windows 10 though. (...the couple of 3.5" discs that I now use in old music equipment originally came from a supply room in Microsoft when I interned there in 2014, although I'm not sure what they were used for even back then).
- mkl 7y agoLinux hadn't dropped support, the driver is stable and still present. Without an official maintainer it would continue to work for some time, though would eventually need fixing as other parts of the kernel change around it. Even without an official maintainer interested people could still update it if changes to other parts of the kernel broke something.