Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 05:17:07 -0800 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040108131707.GB53429@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <20040108033905.A32598@pooker.samsco.home> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108015954.V32598@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108101451.GK48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108033905.A32598@pooker.samsco.home>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:43:55AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Well, regardless of how you label it, these floppies still require lots of > care and feeding in order to work. We currently have no way to support > multiple floppies in a convenient way. This can be fixed in a variety > of ways that range from fragile hacks to wonderful designs, but it still > requires someone to put forth the effort. My offer for a 'floppy > maintainer' is quite sincere; I hope that someone takes an interest and > steps up to the challenge. The other big "problem" with removing floppies, is that not everyone has a cd burner. I wouldn't even say the majority of FreeBSD users have CD burners. I think someone mentioned this. I would love to be the 'floppy maintainer', but I know very little about the actual process and sadly don't have the time either :( -- Avleen Vig Systems Administrator Personal: www.silverwraith.com EFnet: irc.mindspring.com (Earthlink user access only)
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