WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Liam Proven]

On 25 September 2010 02:47, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> Hello Liam,
>
> Friday, September 24, 2010, 8:26:49 AM, Liam wrote:
>
> LP> On 24 September 2010 16:02, ms <devicerandom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't understand how could you insist that they maintain something
>>> that they have no hardware to test on.
>>>
>>> It's sad, I understand, but it's also normal. Technologies come and go.
>>> Floppy is a dead technology since years and years.
>
> LP> Floppies are not extinct, are still in common use,
>
> Agreed. Not often, but still important for what they do.
>
> LP> and for quite a number of relatively modern machines that cannot
> LP> boot from USB are still the most commonly-available easiest and
> LP> cheapest boot media. To burn a CD for one use, such as re-Flashing
> LP> a BIOS, and then throw it away is appalling environmental
> LP> irresponsibility.
>
> Some S/W or data is on a floppy and is not available in any other
> form. A bit difficult to make a CD. :-)
>
> LP> I expect testing on desktop machines and I expect support for fairly
> LP> recent legacy hardware.
>
> Agreed. For me, computers are tools, not the latest look-at-this
> hobby. I expect my tools to work for a reasonable time - one of the
> reasons I chose 10.04.
>
> LP> PS/2 ports, parallel & serial ports, analogue VGA ports &
> LP> monitors, CDs as opposed to DVDs, the ISA bus, the parallel PCI
> LP> buses, these are all "legacy" technology but still in use.
>
> LP> I still expect such things to work.
>
> Agreed.
>
> LP> No, but I *do* expect it to work on kit that meets the minimum
> LP> requirements and kit that is (say) ten to 12 years old if it was
> LP> of good specification at the time.
>
> LP> A 1GB P3 from 1998 or 1999, yes.
>
> I tried it on an even newer and more capable box - it would NOT work,
> but runs Win just fine...
>
> LP> I am still using live machines less than a decade old that can't
> LP> boot from USB.
>
> Agreed. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. :-)

Thanks for that! Glad to know I am not alone in this.

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