About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a version ...

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 ...

IT's Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds has declared the Linux floppy driver has finally flopped over. When Torvalds created Linux in 1991, he built it on a 386-powered PC with a floppy drive. The first to go ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was just given a laptop that was no working keyboard, CDrom, or floppy disk. But it does have working USB and PS/2 ports and the screen still works well. Are there any Linux distros that can be ...

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...

But seriously, how are so many industries still using magnetic disks, even now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Way back in ...