Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system?

Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological advances elsewhere.
ZDNet

Linus Torvalds prepares to wave goodbye to Linux floppy drives

When Linus Torvalds first created Linux in 1991, he built it on a 386-powered PC with a floppy drive. Things change. In 2012, Torvalds bid the i386 processor adieu saying, "I'm not sentimental. Good ...
Ars Technica

Floppy-based alternatives to Coyote Linux?

I lost a NIC in my Coyote box this morning. I'm building a new disk because I'm going to a different card and I was wondering if there are better alternatives out there?<P>I don't like the shell nor ...
Linux Journal

Linux Ending Support for the Floppy Drive, Unity 2019.2 Launches Today, Purism Unveils Final Librem 5 Smartphone Specs, First Kernel Security Update for Debian 10 "Buster" Is ...

Linux won't support the floppy drive much longer. ZDNet reports that Linus Torvalds has "declared the floppy drive project 'orphaned'". The article quotes Linus: "Actual working physical floppy ...
Ars Technica

Linux ext2 floppy file system problem...

Hey, I'm going to ask another probably silly question, but here goes anyway:<br><br>Has the ext2 filesystem changed at all from kernal 2.4.6 to 2.0.0? The reason I ask is because I am in the process ...