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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•1 month agoThese aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing. Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year. Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
minus-squareChaotic EntropylinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-21 month agoI reserve the right to use my copy of “Mario is Missing!” from 1993.
These aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing.
Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year.
Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
I reserve the right to use my copy of “Mario is Missing!” from 1993.