FC4t2 no good without LILO
Mike Bird
mgb-fedora at yosemite.net
Wed Apr 13 00:23:48 UTC 2005
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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