From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: FYI: story on LWN.net
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:58:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090626235830.GB26038@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246055640.20234.32.camel@mj>
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 06:34:00PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 21:08 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> The point is that such features would not have convinced many users to
> switch, whether such features exist or not.
And a modular architecture would? I'm not sure I agree.
Then again, a modular architecture attracts developers, which tends to be more
useful :-)
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-25 16:38 FYI: story on LWN.net Pavel Roskin
2009-06-25 20:24 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-26 4:08 ` Colin D Bennett
2009-06-26 22:34 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-26 23:58 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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