From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MKLJY-0008Ko-Od for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:58:40 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKLJX-0008HF-4W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:58:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKLJS-00084u-6D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:58:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50643 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKLJR-00084a-T2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:58:34 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53034) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKLJR-0002NP-Dp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:58:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MKKG2-0005vt-EI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:50:59 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MKLJO-0006mR-F0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:58:30 +0200 Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:58:30 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090626235830.GB26038@thorin> References: <1245947939.16538.26.camel@mj> <200906252108.04243.colin@gibibit.com> <1246055640.20234.32.camel@mj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1246055640.20234.32.camel@mj> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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 23:58:39 -0000 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."