lilo vs grub

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Mark Mielke wrote:

> Your argument would have substance, if, for example, lilo was a competitive
> alternative that was actively maintained (KDE vs GNOME for example).
> 
> I think the competitive alternative is a card case to prove, and the
> actively maintained is impossible to prove.
> 
> Feel free to correct me... Perhaps you will take ownership of lilo, and
> ensure that it is actively maintained? Remember, the open source community
> isn't just about users. It is quite significantly about contributors.
> Without contributors, the users have nobody to blame about a product becoming
> obsolete.

All of this is quite funny since the most recent release of lilo was made,
oh, 11 days ago (20031009). lilo's been actively maintained and regularly
released several times a year for the past several years by John Coffman.

later,
chris