2007/10/19, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is a bit of a rant. > > After reviewing the thread on 'mktemp, tempfile & coreutils', I asked my > self what is the big deal about Grub 2. I went to the Grub home page > and did some reading. > > My reaction is "Are they out of their minds?" My conclusion is yes. > The whole idea of a bootloader is to get the OS up and running. I > looked at http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList and am astounded. > > This goes completely against the Unix philosophy of making simple single > function tools. Why are they trying to do lsmod/rmmod, enter rescue > mode, set and unset variables, run scripts, and so forth. They are > trying to recreate the kernel. > > I don't have a problem with rewriting Grub, but they have let feature > creep run away and lost sight of the purpose of the application. Just > because you *can* do something doesn't mean that you *should* do it. > > I don't see LFS going to this for a *long* time.
I must agree with Bruce even if I can't imagine a bad Grub. Grub is the best bootloader I've ever seen, and now the first choice for any GNU/Linux system. However, they tend to bloat their software, and this bring many problems: * Grub1 is not 'really' maintained anymore, what for all the worldwild user? * Grub2 is not ready for work, so not making evolutions to Grub1 can be problematic - the task to make it stable is big too, in regards to the functionnalities they went to implement it too. * Grub2 may not be the first choice anymore for the 'amazing simple, little, powerfull' bootloader we all now know. I just hope the Grub team will make us tell a lie ... -- Richard 'riri' GILL jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://riri.houbathecat.info http://nasgaia.org « Frimousse en excessivité émousse son expressivité » -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
