On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:43, Paul G Rogers wrote: > >usb-hdd boot has been around for approximately three years now. The > >price of flash drives isn't an issue anymore. Thus, I sincerely think > >it's time for us to consider moving from 3.5 floppies to usb-hdd flash > >drives. > > I'd really hate to see that. Firewall service is a great use for > obsolete hardware, and the box currently serving me can't even boot off a > 1680K floppy! But it's one of those small pizza-boxes, and the size is a > great benefit.
Paul, Leaf isn't a monolithic project. Suggesting something doesn't mean discontinuing something else. The bering-uclibc team seems adamant about continuing floppy support at this time. That doesn't mean another leaf branch has to feel the same way about this issue. For example, Wisp-Dist never supported a floppy install. Please see our project derivation chart, and project development model for examples/explanations of these concepts. http://leaf-project.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2 http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg04541.html Note: Eric and Martin posted today in favor of continuing our current development model. -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel