bootloader or boot loader I got me my answer

Sat Jun 15 02:47:48 UTC 2013

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.

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 Leslie

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> From: Pete Travis <me at petetravis.com>
>To: For participants of the Documentation Project <docs at lists.fedoraproject.org> 
>Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:38 PM
>Subject: Re: bootloader or boot loader
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>On Jun 14, 2013 3:37 PM, "Pete Travis" <me at petetravis.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 14, 2013 3:03 PM, "Eric H. Christensen" <sparks at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>> > - -- Eric
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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.
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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.
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>> 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
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