WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[ms]

On 24/09/10 07:35, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Here is a gem from a Lauchy discussion on this matter:
>
> QUOTE
>
>>   NoOp [2010-08-31 2:20 -0000]:
>>   >   Can one of the devs listed in the assigned: Andy Whitcroft and
>>   >   Martin Pitt please explain the status?
>>
>>   You already summarized it pretty well. None of the devs have a floppy
>>   disk, so debugging them is a pain (as much of a pain as floppy disks
>>   are in the first place..) Personally, the last one I had was 2002..
>>
>>   So for now, I'm afraid that you have to use an older Ubuntu release
>>   for now, or use the downgraded version for a while.
>>
>>   I'm sorry that this isn't the answer you are looking for, but it's the
>>   current situation.
>
> UNQUOTE
>
> Note: none of the devs computers with a floppy....so for all you silly
> bums and no-hopers who do have one.....tuff teaties!

I don't understand how could you insist that they maintain something 
that they have no hardware to test on.

It's sad, I understand, but it's also normal. Technologies come and go. 
Floppy is a dead technology since years and years.

> And for all those who still spout the line that Ubuntu will run on all
> hardware -- get real! It's crap!

It has always been crap, if you take this literally. Ubuntu won't run on 
my 30-years old VIC20, nor on a PDP10, or on a 640K-ram 8086.

m.