From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MK2jW-0004Tx-U8 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:08:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MK2jU-0004Tn-P1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:08:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MK2jQ-0004Sx-1h for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:08:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60556 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MK2jP-0004Su-Sj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:08:07 -0400 Received: from gateway09.websitewelcome.com ([67.18.103.4]:34975) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MK2jP-0000sF-7b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:08:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 28655 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2009 04:13:42 -0000 Received: from gator297.hostgator.com (74.53.228.114) by gateway09.websitewelcome.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2009 04:13:42 -0000 Received: from c-67-185-14-196.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([67.185.14.196]:56327 helo=svelte.localnet) by gator297.hostgator.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MK2jQ-0003Qt-31; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:08:08 -0500 From: Colin D Bennett To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:08:03 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <1245947939.16538.26.camel@mj> In-Reply-To: <1245947939.16538.26.camel@mj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906252108.04243.colin@gibibit.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator297.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gibibit.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: Pavel Roskin Subject: Re: FYI: story on LWN.net X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:08:13 -0000 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