Ok, here is how I feel about this long, tiresome argument. There are many people that like grub, and for the majority of the userbase, grub does what it needs to do. Sure there could be some improvement, but from what I'm told by the people who work on grub, it's somewhat trivial, and possibly the community could do it. Lilo is still very usefull, and does have some special needs requirements. For this reason, lilo can't be left out in the dark. Syslinux (aaah, nobody talked about this yet) is a very handy tool, but it is also a boot loader, shoot, not anotherone. The key thing here is that syslinux is quite handy for bootable isos, floppies, PXE boots, etc.. things that neither lilo nor grub do very well. Here is what I propose: Grub and Syslinux remain in Core. They will cover the mass majority of the userbase, with minimal duplication. Lilo shall be relegated to Alternatives or Extras. Lilo seems to have a smaller need base, but still needs to be available. This should satisfy the majority of the people on this list right? /me prepares napalm umbrella.. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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