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Re: Can LILO do this too?

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SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> writes:

> 2012-05-19, Dan Espen wrote:
>> SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 2012-05-19, Dan Espen wrote:
>>>> no.top.post@gmail.com writes:
>>>>
>>>> Which leaves one wondering why LILO in this day and age.
>>>
>>> Because it Just Works™.
>>
>> Obviously for a seriously limited range of values for "works".
>
> Yes. For more general cases, it works.
>
>> Besides you just cut out my point about active development.
>
> The point was noted. I'm not sure if LILO is actively developed or not.
> In any case I haven't heard any news that suggested so. In my personal
> experience LILO has always worked where GRUB has failed. But then again,
> my use cases have not been this advanced.

This appears to be the LILO home page:

http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/

They say development stopped and then started.
But when I went to read the documentation it's all
marked "old".

I'd say a project without documentation is no project at all.


-- 
Dan Espen

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Can LILO do this too? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-05-19 14:23 +0000
  Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 11:17 -0500
  Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 12:31 -0400
    Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 17:41 +0000
      Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 14:36 -0400
        Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 18:58 +0000
          Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 15:39 -0400
        Re: Can LILO do this too? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2012-05-19 13:59 -0500
        Re: Can LILO do this too? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 14:59 -0400
      Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 17:27 -0500
  Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-20 18:57 +0000
    Re: Can LILO do this too? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-05-20 18:50 -0400
      Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-21 21:53 +0000

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