Quotes of the week (VFAT special) [LWN.net]

We put in workarounds for broken hardware, even though we rightfully dislike it. Similarly, in this case a minor change prevents a real problem experienced by our users (yes, I know we only have one public bug report).

It's bad. Yes, let's bitch about it. And workaround it anyway.

-- Rusty Russell

When the vendor of an operating system doesn't even bother to display a clean "sorry, you don't get updates any more" page for their OS then I think it is safe to say that the operating system is dead and buried.

-- Andrew Tridgell

How is shipping something labelled as vfat that doesn't work properly "fighting back". It's "trying to make the users think our code is crap".

-- Alan Cox

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No so dead, not so buried

Posted Jul 10, 2009 14:33 UTC (Fri) by klossner (subscriber, #30046) [Link]

I have twin daughters in high school. One uses an old machine running Windows 98. The other, more adventurous, uses an old machine running Ubuntu. USB drives with FAT32 file systems are used to move files between school and home. Compatibility is not just a theoretical benefit to my family.