Futuer of grub/grub2 to F11

[King InuYasha]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:35 PM, King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/1/4 Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
>
>> On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 15:49 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> > Jochen Schmitt wrote:
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>> > > Hallo,
>> > >
>> > > nowaday I have read in the german fedora forum, that grub is not able
>> > > to handle
>> > > ext4 file systems. In opposite grub2 should be able to support ext4.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > I haven't looked at the code for grub2 myself, but most of the people I
>> > talk to that have cringe when they mention it. The people I talk to tend
>> > to be heavily involved in the boot process. As a piece of software
>> > engineering, it hasn't earned many fans among those most concerned with
>> > the change as far as I can tell.
>>
>> Last I knew, grub2 was a dead project.  At least it was when I looked at
>> it about 2 or 3 years ago.  It hadn't had a single code update in over 2
>> years when I looked at it.  Has that changed?
>>
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>
> According to the SVN repo for grub2, its just the opposite!
>
> SVN repo: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/?root=grub
>
> In the repo, the latest change was 42hrs ago. It is far from dead. A video
> subsystem has been implemented from the GSoC 2008 as well as some usb
> support I believe.
>

Well, it was a "fancy menu" thing implemented using the video subsystem...
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