[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi,
Before this gets out of control, I'd like to clarify a few things. There is too much confusion already. I'm very sorry I was the one who started this. :-/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>> On Friday 21 July 2006 11:58, Molle Bestefich wrote: >>> Whom on earth wants to use alpha software as their boot loader? >> >> Oh, what a shameless comment. Nobody said such a thing when GRUB was born. If >> all people were like you, any new technology wouldn't be accepted or >> developed. Note that nearly all free software projects are volunteer-based, >> and great people always have been contributing to cutting-edge software >> projects. This is how GNU and many other free software projects have evolved. > > That may very well be the case, but... GRUB2 has been rather heavily > adveertised as alpha material, while grub-legacy has been advertised as > abandonned, leaving prospective users wondering what to do. GRUB Legacy has always been alpha software too. I think the reason why Okuji asked me why I did something for GRUB Legacy is a sane question. I did a lot of work on GRUB 2 already and Okuji and me are the maintainers. It's quite weird to see the maintainer of GRUB 2 to send in a patch for GRUB Legacy. The reason why I send in a patch for GRUB Legacy has nothing to do how I think or feel about GRUB 2. I am still very interested in GRUB 2 and plan to do a lot more GRUB 2 hacking when I have the time. The reason why I sent in a patch was because I am working on it for google's Summer of Code. So it has nothing to do with personal interest, it's just something I had to do. That said, it's clear to me that most work should be done on GRUB 2. And that is what I will do and hope anyone will do. GRUB 2 is easier to maintain, easier to hack and has more potential. I think I will send in yet another patch for GRUB Legacy, with the same reason as the previous patch. But after that it is good old GRUB 2 hacking for me again. :-) Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
