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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 10/06/2011 05:00 PM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: |
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>> Am Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:27:14 -0400 |
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>> schrieb Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>: |
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>>> On 10/06/2011 04:20 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: |
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>>>> most of the "oh it's so weird"-whining often comes from just not |
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>>>> being used to it. flip your door lock upside down - you'll hate it |
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>>>> with passion for a week and then you won't even notice. flip it |
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>>>> again and the process will repeat. |
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>>> |
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>>> But if someone else snuck into your house and flipped your locks |
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>>> every week? |
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>>> This one change won't be catastrophic, but I will probably spend a |
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>>> good eight hours researching, testing, implementing, and documenting |
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>>> it. In the end, *if everything goes according to plan*, stuff will |
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>>> work exactly how it does now. |
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>> nothing forces you to switch to grub2. |
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> True in theory, but not in practice. Legacy grub will go away |
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> eventually. |
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Technically, it's already gone. It's on life-support: the developers |
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of grub-legacy are the same of GRUB2, and they are only accepting bug |
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fixes, not new features (I believe, someone correct me if I'm |
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mistaken). |
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The good news is that your current hardware (and also the new, for the |
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next few months) will probably work OK with grub-legacy. The bad news |
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is that machines with EFI and UEFI will need to use GRUB2 (again, that |
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is what I understand, correct me if I'm wrong). |
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> If we have some grub-legacy and some grub2 installs, we have |
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> to support (document, test, take out to dinner occasionally) both, which |
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> is probably going to be more effort than just moving to grub2 after I |
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> figure out how it works. |
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Exactly. From my point of view, better to start moving to GRUB2 now |
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(except for critical systems), to got it mastered when it hits stable. |
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> Either way is going to require a non-zero amount of work, while zero is |
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> the amount of work I would prefer to do. |
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We have a say in México: "el que quiera azul celeste, que le cueste". |
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It's basically the same as "there's no such thing as a free lunch": |
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everything costs, maybe in money, maybe in time, maybe in work, and |
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possibly on all of the above. |
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But hey, at least you don't have to write your own boot loader. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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