Re: FYI: story on LWN.net

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

Pavel Roskin wrote on Thursday 25 June 2009:
> Hello!
>
> LWN.net is featuring GRUB in its last weekly release.  The story will be
> open for everyone two weeks from now.  In the meantime, it can be
> accessed using this URL:
> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/338337/e44cc926a53c0fc0/
>
> The story has some interesting comments from people who are outside the
> GRUB development but well inside the free software community.  In
> particular, the comment about font formats may be interesting to those
> working on the graphical interface.

The article states:
> With respect to the technical qualities of GRUB 2, Rintel is mostly
> impressed about GRUB 2's modular architecture. He calls other features such
> as the graphics subsystem with mouse support capable of rendering
> antialiased Unicode glyphs "hardly things that would convince anyone to
> switch to GRUB 2".

There is no mouse support yet (though it should come in the near future now 
that USB is working) and there is no font antialiasing.

Regards,
Colin