• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Is this the equivalent of a PC maker in 2024 going “yeah, I don’t think we are going to put a floppy drive in anymore…”?

    • homura1650@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      No. It is the equivalent of a PC maker going “yeah. I don’t think we are going to put in a CD drive anymore because the DVD drive we have been including for years can do CDs as well”

      • LeFantome@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        That is a great analogy.

        Linux can support ext2 two ways today: explicitly and as a side effect of ext4 support. All this change does is remove the explicit support.

        We can remove the explicit CD support provided by a dedicated drive because the DVD drive will provide it as a side-effect.