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LILO Bootloader Development To End

Posted by timothy on from the and-I-tell-you-things-were-better-then dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For any longtime Linux users, you probably remember the LILO bootloader from Linux distributions of many years ago. This bootloader has been in development since the 90's but development is finally ending. A homepage message reads, "I plan to finish development of LILO at 12/2015 because of some limitations (e.g. with BTFS, GPT, RAID). If someone want to develop this nice software further, please let me know ..."

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  1. Re: Well now Patrick will have to make a change by omnichad · · Score: 4, Funny

    the fundamental nature of how our computers boot is always up for GRUBs.

  2. systemd by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't simply replace LILO with systemd?