On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:46:43 -0600, Dale wrote: > > What is there to do with it? It's a bootloader that boots and loads, > > what more do you want? > > > > No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. > > > > > > My point was, if something changes and it no longer works, then we may > all have to switch. According to the website, nothing much is being > done with the old grub.
What can change? We are stuck with a hardware spec from 30 years ago for booting. That won't change any time soon. > I want to wait until either the old grub doesn't work for me or the new > grub is known to be stable and has got all the kinks worked out. Even > then, I may wait until I have a issue or the old grub leaves the tree. > I seem to recall hal was stable and worked for most people too. It > just didn't work here for me. That's completely different. HAL had to deal with varying hardware and varying requirement of the software that wanted to interface with that hardware. > When is the last time a package was finished never to be changed > again? I have never seen that from any program. There is always > something new, some better way to do things or just some little tweak > to improve things. Maybe there are, and if that's what you want you can use GRUB2, but legacy GRUB won't stop working as long as we are using the BIOS to boot from disk-like devices. -- Neil Bothwick Zmodem has bigger bits, softer blocks, and tighter ASCII
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