Comment by drewzero1
4 years ago
QNX, Floppix (2 diskettes)[0], MenuetOS[1], and Kolibri[2] were all very exciting to me in the early '00s. Eventually I got a USB drive (128MB!) and more or less gave up on the floppy life, but I do still appreciate the idea of running froim a floppy.
[0] https://www.floppix.com/ [1] http://menuetos.net/ [2] http://www.kolibrios.org/en/
I recently tried to boot again muLinux, I still think it's kinda impressive! http://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/
I understand the appeal of radical portability that a floppy-based OS gives you, but the fragility of floppy disk media is something I don't miss!
> I understand the appeal of radical portability that a floppy-based OS gives you, but the fragility of floppy disk media is something I don't miss!
I also like the idea that the media doesn't contain a computer that could be programmed to do something nefarious that you don't expect.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/heres-a-list-...
> I also like the idea that the media doesn't contain a computer that could be programmed to do something nefarious that you don't expect.
It's entirely possible for a floppy-disk to be an attack-vector.
After all, viruses were a thing in DOS days and they spread via floppy disks: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/definition/boot...
But a modern Trojan-horse style computer-hidden-inside-an-innocuous-looking-peripheral in a floppy disk should be possible, considering what Sony fit into a floppy-disk's dimensions back in 2000: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica_FD95
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> fragility of floppy disk
1.44 MB “floppies” were encased in hard plastic and not fragile