{"id":97521,"date":"2019-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/linux-to-bid-goodbye-to-linux-floppy-drives\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T00:00:00","slug":"linux-to-bid-goodbye-to-linux-floppy-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/linux-to-bid-goodbye-to-linux-floppy-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux To Bid Goodbye To Linux Floppy Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lcom-stacked__main\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Ji\u0159\u00ed Kosina, the Czech Linux kernel developer in charge of the floppy drive driver, said he&nbsp; no longer had working hardware. &#8220;Actual working physical floppy hardware is getting hard to find, and while Willy was able to test this, I think the driver can be considered pretty much dead from an actual hardware standpoint.&nbsp; The hardware that is still sold seems to be mainly USB-based, which doesn&#8217;t use this legacy driver at all,\u201d wrote Linus Torvalds on a discussion thread. (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linus-torvalds-prepares-to-wave-goodbye-to-linux-floppy-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ZDNet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linux.com\/popup\/nojs\" class=\"ctools-use-modal ctools-modal-subscription-modal-style element-invisible\" title>Click Here!<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ji\u0159\u00ed Kosina, the Czech Linux kernel developer in charge of the floppy drive driver, said he&nbsp; no longer had working hardware. &#8220;Actual working physical floppy hardware is getting hard to find, and while Willy was able to test this, I think the driver can be considered pretty much dead from an actual hardware standpoint.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}