From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLZC1-0005cM-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:32:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1550AE0943; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF53E0943 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F32593FE949 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:31:33 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:32:12 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? Message-ID: <20091218093212.23ebf629@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B2AD0AB.4070808@cox.net> References: <4B2A53F1.6000400@cox.net> <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> <4B2AA0D8.8000101@cox.net> <20091217221655.69beaae5@digimed.co.uk> <4B2AD0AB.4070808@cox.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs39 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/+bQB_uRD+q.AiaV14A=UNrn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 164d0e3f-d0d6-43a6-a512-c678ddae47d8 X-Archives-Hash: 4030c0c577bd19f6cd8d6b0a2e6c4ca1 --Sig_/+bQB_uRD+q.AiaV14A=UNrn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: > > For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled > > by default. > > =20 > But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do=20 > things really go obsolete like that after decades of prevalence? Yes, thankfully. Floppy disks have no real place nowadays, they are bulky, unreliable and store very little. If you want support for legacy hardware, it is there at the flick of a (config) switch but enabling by default makes no sense, especially on Gentoo where default tends to mean "starting point" more that "standard configuration". --=20 Neil Bothwick When there's a will, I want to be in it. --Sig_/+bQB_uRD+q.AiaV14A=UNrn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksrTCUACgkQum4al0N1GQOvwQCfbkil2EcpFR8g9ElExSC9KbfV D90An1pCIhJLwFK0772bNNj+5hcV/WdZ =cHSC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/+bQB_uRD+q.AiaV14A=UNrn--