Futuer of grub/grub2 to F11

[King InuYasha]

2009/1/4 Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>

> On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 15:49 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> > Jochen Schmitt wrote:
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> > > Hallo,
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> > > nowaday I have read in the german fedora forum, that grub is not able
> > > to handle
> > > ext4 file systems. In opposite grub2 should be able to support ext4.
> > >
> > >
> > I haven't looked at the code for grub2 myself, but most of the people I
> > talk to that have cringe when they mention it. The people I talk to tend
> > to be heavily involved in the boot process. As a piece of software
> > engineering, it hasn't earned many fans among those most concerned with
> > the change as far as I can tell.
>
> Last I knew, grub2 was a dead project.  At least it was when I looked at
> it about 2 or 3 years ago.  It hadn't had a single code update in over 2
> years when I looked at it.  Has that changed?
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According to the SVN repo for grub2, its just the opposite!

SVN repo: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/?root=grub

In the repo, the latest change was 42hrs ago. It is far from dead. A video
subsystem has been implemented from the GSoC 2008 as well as some usb
support I believe.
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