FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Guy Fraser]

Well put.

On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 17:23 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> I just checked the Redhat and Fedora distros which I still have around. 
> Here are the Lilo versions:
> 
>   7.1  21.4.4-13
>   7.2  21.4.4-14
>   7.3  21.4.4-14
>   8.0  21.4.4-20
>   9    21.4.4-22
>   FC1  21.4.4-24
>   FC2  21.4.4-25
>   FC3  21.4.4-26
> 
> Most of the version bumps were for new Redhat releases and involved no
> source changes.  There was only one patch to Redhat's Lilo in the last
> two years: a single #define.  Lilo version 21.4.4 actually dates back to
> 2000.
> 
> So we have a package that is essential in some circumstances, that costs
> next to nothing to maintain, and that takes up <0.1% of a CD's space. 
> The experience of many people in the real world is that even  a five
> year old version of Lilo is more reliable than today's Grub.  Certainly
> a five year old version of Lilo handles software RAID better than
> today's Grub.
> 
> And so the cardinals of the Redhat vatican issue a bull banning Lilo.
> 
> FLOSS didn't used to be like this.  When did the world change?
> 
> --Mike Bird
> 
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