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Can someone confirm whether it is bootloader or boot loader? What's the standard for Fedora guides?
- -- Eric
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On Jun 14, 2013 3:03 PM, "Eric H. Christensen" sparks@fedoraproject.org wrote:
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Can someone confirm whether it is bootloader or boot loader? What's the
standard for Fedora guides?
- -- Eric
Eric "Sparks" Christensen Fedora Project - Red Hat
sparks@redhat.com - sparks@fedoraproject.org 097C 82C3 52DF C64A 50C2 E3A3 8076 ABDE 024B B3D1
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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.
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.
That said, I'm not going to argue if there's an established precedent.
--Pete
On Jun 14, 2013 3:37 PM, "Pete Travis" me@petetravis.com wrote:
On Jun 14, 2013 3:03 PM, "Eric H. Christensen" sparks@fedoraproject.org
wrote:
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Can someone confirm whether it is bootloader or boot loader? What's
the standard for Fedora guides?
- -- Eric
Eric "Sparks" Christensen Fedora Project - Red Hat
sparks@redhat.com - sparks@fedoraproject.org 097C 82C3 52DF C64A 50C2 E3A3 8076 ABDE 024B B3D1
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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.
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.
That said, I'm not going to argue if there's an established precedent.
--Pete
Oops....
When in doubt, hyphenate
bootloader can be boot-loader.
Google has bootloader, wikipedia has boot loader
Here is my take. And I may be as wrong as anyone else.
A bootloader is the name of the software, which, when executing, performs the function of loading the boot code, hence
when executing, it is in the role of a boot loader.
So, a bootloader is a boot loader.
Regards
Leslie
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From: Pete Travis me@petetravis.com To: For participants of the Documentation Project docs@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:38 PM Subject: Re: bootloader or boot loader
On Jun 14, 2013 3:37 PM, "Pete Travis" me@petetravis.com wrote:
On Jun 14, 2013 3:03 PM, "Eric H. Christensen" sparks@fedoraproject.org wrote:
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Can someone confirm whether it is bootloader or boot loader? What's the standard for Fedora guides?
- -- Eric
Eric "Sparks" Christensen Fedora Project - Red Hat
sparks@redhat.com - sparks@fedoraproject.org 097C 82C3 52DF C64A 50C2 E3A3 8076 ABDE 024B B3D1
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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.
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.
That said, I'm not going to argue if there's an established precedent.
--Pete
Oops.... (1) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html -- docs mailing list docs@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 07:47:48PM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
Here is my take. And I may be as wrong as anyone else. A bootloader is the name of the software, which, when executing, performs the function of loading the boot code, hence when executing, it is in the role of a boot loader. So, a bootloader is a boot loader.
Are you trying to break my "search and replace" mentality here?
*sigh* I suppose you could be correct here. However is there anything that isn't a bootloader that also serves as a boot loader?
- -- Eric
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