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Message-ID: <20070207135036.GJ7584@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:50:36 -0500 From: lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) To: Sunil Naidu <akula2.shark@...il.com> Cc: Akemi Yagi <amyagi@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:03:26PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: > Yep, still floppies are useful. Example, when we buy a new device > (driver) with a floppy (sometimes by manufacturer). Plus, from the > customer (not user) POV, what's wrong in spending another $10 for a > FDD in a typical $1000 PC? Makes sense right ;-) Well certainly anyone with windows that needed a driver for their sata controller better have a floppy drive (well apparenly vista now knows about these amazing things called usb and optical drives... :). I also find them handy as an emergency grub boot method, although I guess most new machines could boot that from cd if necesary. Personally I just stick in a $25 floppy and usb memory card reader in one. Very handy, and doesn't waste space that way. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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