On Jun 14, 2013 3:03 PM, "Eric H. Christensen" <sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Can someone confirm whether it is bootloader or boot loader? What's the standard for Fedora guides?
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I just skimmed over the grub manual(1) for hints. There are eight instances of "bootloader" and forty instances of "boot loader" - so there's a trend but nothing absolute.
Without looking for further precedent, I like "bootloader". It is a discrete concept, and IMO worthy of its own compound word. It doesn't work either way in a literal sense, and to the uninitiated "boot loader" could just as well be something at the Wolverine factory as something that loads [the booting of] an operating system. A "bootloader" is clearly not an incidental pairing of words and therefore provides better connotation for the reader.
That said, I'm not going to argue if there's an established precedent.
--Pete
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