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.

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 ...

There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 inch drive, surely the size of the modern kernel alone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...