<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>When in doubt, hyphenate</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>bootloader can be boot-loader.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google has bootloader</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;"> wikipedia has boot loader</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Here is my take. And I may be as wrong as anyone else.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">A bootloader is the name of the software,
which, when executing, performs the function of loading the boot code, hence <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">when executing, it is in the role of a boot loader.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">So, a bootloader is a boot loader.<br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px;
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SYSTEM.</b><br></font><br><span style="" lang="FR-CA"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Pete Travis <me@petetravis.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> For participants of the Documentation Project <docs@lists.fedoraproject.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 14, 2013 5:38 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: bootloader or boot loader<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6506970287"><div
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On Jun 14, 2013 3:37 PM, "Pete Travis" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:me@petetravis.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:me@petetravis.com">me@petetravis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Jun 14, 2013 3:03 PM, "Eric H. Christensen" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sparks@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sparks@fedoraproject.org">sparks@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Can someone confirm whether it is bootloader or boot loader? What's the standard for Fedora guides?<br>
> ><br>
> > - -- Eric<br>
> ><br>
> > - --------------------------------------------------<br>
> > Eric "Sparks" Christensen<br>
> > Fedora Project - Red Hat<br>
> ><br>
> > <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sparks@redhat.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:sparks@redhat.com">sparks@redhat.com</a> - <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sparks@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:sparks@fedoraproject.org">sparks@fedoraproject.org</a><br>
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> I just skimmed over the grub manual(1) for hints. There are eight instances of "bootloader" and forty instances of "boot loader" - so there's a trend but nothing absolute.<br>
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> Without looking for further precedent, I like "bootloader". It is a discrete concept, and IMO worthy of its own compound word. It doesn't work either way in a literal sense, and to the uninitiated "boot loader" could just as well be something at the Wolverine factory as something that loads [the booting of] an operating system. A "bootloader" is clearly not an incidental pairing of words and therefore provides better connotation for the reader.<br>
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> That said, I'm not going to argue if there's an established precedent.<br>
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> --Pete</div>
<div dir="ltr">Oops.... </div>
<div dir="ltr">(1) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html</a></div></div><br>-- <br>docs mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:docs@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="mailto:docs@lists.fedoraproject.org">docs@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>To unsubscribe:<br><a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>