Win98 -- all kidding aside

[David Koski]

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On Wednesday 30 July 2008 10:10, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> And so I say: Linux should from the very first have mastered the art of
> controlling a floppy drive. As far as I can tell, Linux has never done
> so. Having tried several flavors of Linux over the years (Red Hat,
> Mandrake, Mandriva, Xandros, Caldera, several other flavors whose names
> I cannot recall, Ubuntu, Kbuntu, and now Ubuntu again), I can also say
> that I'm unaware of any Linux distro that ever handled floppy drives
> with the ease that MacIntosh (another Unix system) and the PC have
> always accomplished that chore.

Actually, Linux *has* mastered "the art of controlling a floppy drive".  
Unless perhaps you use some kind of buggy GUI and expect it to automount.  I 
conseed that it can be intimidating for a Windows uer to mount a floppy 
though.

Regards,
David Koski
david at kosmosisland.com

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