Not only that, but the effects are really only going to be noticeable on very large partitions/devices, like terabyte+ size. The typical thumb drive scenario will see no recognizable improvement in load speed. It’s still a nice improvement, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not a change that translates to any real-world improvement for most user cases.
This is a kernel driver, and yes, kernel updates are independent of distribution development, although distributions are typically built around certain kernel branches. Debian (stable) is relatively conservative, and doesn’t offer the latest, cutting edge kernel, but will eventually include a kernel with this driver available.
This probably won’t have much impact for most use cases, though.
A nail gun can shoot finish nails that are extremely thin, where the head is barely even visible on the other side, and can be covered up with just a dab of wax so that they vanish completely.
Awesome. I never used the Altair, but a friends father had one which we were not allowed to go near. A couple years later we did manage to get access to an IMSAI 8080 running IMDOS. Not long after, the TRS-80 came out, and became the foundational experience that got me hooked on computers, and was the reason I spent a lot of time lurking around Radio Shacks, haha.
Then my school bought three 4k TRS-80 Model III units, where I learned to make my own double sided floppies and write code.
Those were good times, indeed, compared to today. I don’t really relate to most of the modern tech world, despite having been an eager witness to the forefront of it throughout my youth. There’s no allure left for me in this techno-fascist reality we now inhabit. These days, I spend much of my free time growing vegetables and planting trees instead, which takes the edge off the frustration and disappointment. I like to think of myself as my own meta-assembler within the framework of ecology.