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Duncan wrote: |
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> Dale posted on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:32:29 -0600 as excerpted: |
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>> I used lilo when I first started using Linux, Mandrake 9.1 days. When I |
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>> started with Gentoo, I switched to grub. I can't even imagine being |
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>> without grub. I know lilo has some strong points and is maintained but |
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>> I still prefer grub. I also read that a new grub is in the pipe too. |
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>> Supposed to be much better. That's the rumor anyway. |
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> Grub is nice on local machines, due to the ability to use its interactive |
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> shell. That can be quite useful when the config is screwed up for some |
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> reason. On remote machines where the interactivity until booted is much |
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> lower anyway, that doesn't matter so much (if at all) and lilo is as good, |
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> possibly better. |
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> As for grub2... yes, it's in the pipe... as it has been for /years/. |
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> Unfortunately, they did the same thing kde did and pulled support for |
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> their current stable version LONG before the new version was stable, |
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> leaving users between a rock and a hard place. Fortunately, grub is far |
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> smaller and less complex than all of kde, and distributions were able to |
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> step in and pick up the slack (yeah, free software, try doing that with |
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> servantware when the original company abandons it), continuing to both |
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> keep it building with new toolchains, and add new features like support |
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> for ext4, etc. |
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> Unfortunately, last I knew, grub2 wasn't even officially on-disk-format- |
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> stable yet, tho with ubuntu and etc already using it, it's getting more |
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> difficult to change it, and they were /probably/ done with changes, but at |
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> least last I knew, it wasn't official, yet. |
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> FWIW, there's a (masked) grub-2 in the tree, that I've been thinking about |
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> playing with at some point, but I've not gotten to it. When I eventually |
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> do, I'll know quite a bit more about it, but grub1 (0.97-rX) has continued |
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> to work fine for me, so no rush. |
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One would think people would learn from KDE that stopping support for |
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one to favor the new one makes people . . . upset. I guess some people |
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never learn tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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