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GRUB 2.00 Bootloader Officially Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the hot-off-the-griddle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After being in development for more than a decade, GRUB2 was released today as stable. The mailing list announcement covers new features including a standard theme, support for new file-systems, ports to new CPU architectures, new driver coverage, better EFI support, and many other new features that have materialized over the years of development to succeed GRUB Legacy."

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  1. finally! by manicpop · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm glad GRUB2 is finally finished! Now we can finally move on to scrapping the entire thing and spending years on GRUB3.

  2. Re:LILO by omnichad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, yes - LILO. The friendly bootloader with helpful error messages like L or LI.

  3. Re:LILO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah because grub's error reporting is awesome

    OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS A SHELL
    type help for more
    > help

    boot dontboot squeak ripple clown jump error what no boot-alt boot-queue list-devices list-devices-differently help

    >