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LILO Bootloader Development To End

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 1, 2015 @12:54AM 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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there's still a healthy user base.. by resfilter · 2015-09-01 01:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

.. of slackware people.
as a slackware user myself, i have no real problem with grub and i use it on a few machines where it's advantageous, but most of my systems still boot with lilo, and i don't see any need to change them around in the near future.