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

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 ...

The wildly successful PDP-11 minicomputer was a major influence on the evolution of computing throughout the 1970s. While fondly remembered in modern day emulation, there’s nothing like booting up the ...

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 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 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 ...