Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 2025-05-30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 30/05/2025 14:51, Nuno Silva wrote:

Why, again, did FAT become so popular for removable media,
despite its shortcomings?

It's called the lowest common denominator. Or the highest common factor.
EVERYTHING reads and writes FAT.

Yes. The point being: why was there a need for such denominator to be
FAT* and not a more robust (set of) filesystem(s)?

Surely it wasn't fragmentation in the linux world that caused it :-)

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Nuno Silva