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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. LI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    fucked up partition table

  2. Re: Well now Patrick will have to make a change by armanox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Slackware team offered to help. They might fork it

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    I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.