GRUB2 In Fedora

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Nov 8 09:04:31 UTC 2009


On 11/08/2009 02:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 12:58 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:45 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>>>
>>> Because we're acting as de facto upstream for what is effectively a
>>> piece of abandonware. Grub development is essentially dead. This isn't
>>> a nice place to be in as a downstream.
>>>
>>
>> And yet grub2 still doesn't have all the things we need it to have, that
>> is in our grub, and seem to still not want our stuff yet.  Also not a
>> great place to be as a downstream.
> 
> why don't we make it official that we're the new-old-grub upstream and
> give it a shiny new name and a website? it's not like we're not the
> upstream for half the rest of the stack, it'd hardly be a radical new
> venture...

Wouldn't it be easier to work with GRUB2 folks to add the missing
features we need?

Rahul




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