Breezy Floppy Disk Bug

[Hodgins Family]

Good afternoon!


> The mounting of floppies was easy in 5.04 and worked as expected, but 5.10
> it's not the case. From what I've read it seems that the Ubuntu folks
> aren't too concerned about floppy disks. If this is the case, it is a
> shame, as the organization (training charity) I deal with rely on floppies
> a great deal  - well the trainees do anyway.

The Ubuntu folks SHOULD care about floppies. The technology still exists and 
is still "out there" whether or not everybody uses it or likes it. Floppies 
are an excellent "small" piece of technology as long as (like every thing 
else) the user uses good quality name brand products.

Floppies can be used for dragging around small pieces of info like:
i)  utilities that diagnose older hardware
ii) deb files -- I've been known to feed my offline Linux boxes with debs 
downloaded from my online machines using floppies, why burn a CD-RW for 
smbclient?
iii) 360 page text files

I personally don't think that Ubuntu should be pursuing a development model 
that includes ignoring useful, existing, tried-tested-and-true technology 
without some input from all the users who support it.

Hey Ubuntu, I wanna buy a DVD burner. Ya gonna ignore that on the next 
release?

Rob