From: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
mario.blaettermann@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issue in man page boot.7
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:05:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZI9jbkdX1cEWEhYd@dj3ntoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230617111129.GA15264@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>
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On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 13:11:29 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Alejandro,
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 12:31:37AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > On 3/11/23 18:13, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > Without further ado, the following was found:
> > >
> > > Issue: This is true only on x86 and Lilo is probably not much used anymore; also systemd has its own (?) bootloader
>
> Lilo has just been removed from Debian, so to my knowledge only Mageia
> ships it.
>
FWIW, Gentoo still has LILO in the repos. This doesn't change the fact
that it probably does not see much use anymore. Definitely not enough to
warrant being mentioned as "is often". Maybe a historical note, if
anything.
- Oskari
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-18 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-11 17:13 Issue in man page boot.7 Helge Kreutzmann
2023-03-11 23:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-03-12 5:31 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2023-06-17 11:11 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2023-06-18 20:05 ` Oskari Pirhonen [this message]
2023-07-08 15:42 ` Alejandro Colomar
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2023-03-11 17:13 Helge Kreutzmann
2023-03-11 23:41 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-22 19:31 Helge Kreutzmann
2023-01-22 21:22 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-23 6:54 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-23 17:47 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2023-01-23 19:11 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-22 19:31 Helge Kreutzmann
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