From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261719AbTJ2DnF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:43:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261787AbTJ2DnF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:43:05 -0500 Received: from smtp0.libero.it ([193.70.192.33]:41356 "EHLO smtp0.libero.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261719AbTJ2DnD (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:43:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 04:46:00 +0100 From: "M. Fioretti" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Floppy in 2.6 Message-ID: <20031029034600.GF1676@inwind.it> Reply-To: "M. Fioretti" References: <20031028232054.1d452baa.news.receive@zoznam.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 23:42:12 at 11:42:12PM +0100, Måns Rullgård (mru@kth.se) wrote: > > Who uses floppy disks nowadays, anyway? > The many, many people who do need new kernel functionalities, but need to control all their existing hardware and simply won't trash a perfectly good PC just because it's the trendy thing to do, since: they can find a ton of more meaningful uses of the same money (dance classes, extra days of vacation, clothes, theater...) they simply don't have that money See the project in my signature, or the "Unbloating the kernel" thread here for the big picture. Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ "Get real! This is a discussion group, not a helpdesk. You post something, we discuss its implications. If the discussion happens to answer a question you've asked, that's incidental." -- nobull in comp.lang.perl.misc