Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2 - Still Being Maintained In 2023
 

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.2-Floppy

Surprisingly with Linux's new kernel release
Linus and the community is still developing
support for floppy disk drivers I'm not sure
why this is as no one uses computers with floppy
disk readers anymore but I assume its to keep
Linux being flexible and working on all devices
therefore maintaining the compatibility Linux has
among computers :)

"Denis Efremov submitted a floppy driver pull request to Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe of the driver updates for Linux 6.2. Floppy driver updates are seldom but still seemingly cared about for the latest kernel code."

It seems like linus isn't actually supporting
the drivers its the community and the people themselves
This is why I love open-source. people care about everything
in the code :)

My computer didn't originally have a floppy disk drive either but I fixed that. :)

Floppy disks are great. They're disposable (provided you have plenty of them), they have a read-only physical switch (which I wish would be a standard feature on all USB flashdrives) and BIOSes love booting from them.

A floppy disk is like a teaspoon. In a world where everyone switched to lorries, cargo trains and cargo ships, the fact remains that sometimes a teaspoon is all you need.

I am glad to see this. Many expensive production machines still being used still need diskettes. I do not know how many run Linux, but without this it could leave many (+100000 USD) machines orphaned.

As unlikely as this scenario is, to any newbies who are having trouble mounting their floppy disks, you must tweak /etc/fstab like so:

I sold a few USB 3 1/2" floppy diskette drives last year. No trouble at all selling them, so it seems there's still demand for whatever reason