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XOSL, an alternative to Lilo and Grub

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the booting-in-style dept.

WhyPanic writes "XOSL, the Extended Operating System Loader, is a free (as in beer and as in GPL), full featured, graphical boot loader that can work in conjunction with Lilo or separately to boot all varieties of Windows, Linux, and many other OS's." Nifty looking.

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  1. Listen up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. It means we'll manage, master your language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and in the meantime, massage my bone.

    they used to call me Tricky Kid. I lived the life they wished they did.
    Goddamn niggers everywhere you look.

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  3. Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks XSOL! I thought the booloader was one peice of software that those crazy opensource geeks wouldn't be able to turn into a huge peice of bloatware, boy was i wrong! Thanks XSOL, you've easily surpased windows and even linux in bloat for a bootloader. Great work! Now if you can just keep it in a permanently beta state it will be truely worthy of the name open source! If it's not bloated and beta it's probably some proprietary crap. Yes finally the bloat makes it to the bootloader, go open source!!

  4. Re:Just for AMD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have it in your face and you also think it's "for" AMD"?? You must be stupid and drunk.

    XOSL, an alternative to Lilo, AMD, Grub

  5. Someone has to say it... by jonathan_atkinson · · Score: 0, Troll

    "XOSL, an alternative to Lilo amd Grub"

    What was that about using the preview button, guys?

    --jon

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