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 > -- Guy Fraser Network Administrator The Internet Centre 1-888-450-6787 (780)450-6787