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  • Subject: [SM-Spell-Submit] [fmII] GNU GRUB 1.96 released (Development branch)
  • Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:40:42 -0800 (PST)

This email is to inform you about the release of version '1.96' of 'GNU
GRUB' through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful information can be
found at

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugrub/

The changes in this release are as follows:
The license has been changed to the GPL v3. grub-emu is now optional.
Multiboot2 support has been added. A host filesystem has been added
to grub-emu. There is filesystem support for NTFS, cpio/tar, and
Reiserfs, support for ATA/ATAPI, update-grub and grub-mkrescue
scripts, background image support in gfxterm, 64-bit CPU detection,
grub-install for EFI, and support for a colored menu. This release
has been newly ported to Efika, coreboot/LinuxBIOS, and OLPC XO.
Loading Linux zImages has been fixed. GPT has been enabled in the
i386-pc target.

Release focus:
5 - Major feature enhancements

Project added:
Mon, Jul 13th 1998 17:06 (9 years, 6 months ago)

Project description:
GNU GRUB is a Multiboot loader. It was derived from GRUB. It is an
attempt to produce a bootloader for IBM PC-compatible machines that
has both the capability to be friendly to beginning or otherwise
non-technically interested users and the flexibility to help experts
in diverse environments. It is compatible with FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD and Linux. It supports Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP and OS/2 via
chain-loaders. It has a menu interface and a command-line interface.

Trove categories:
[Development Status ] 4 - Beta
[Environment ] Console (Text Based)
[License ] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System ] OS Independent
[Programming Language] Assembly, C
[Topic ] System :: Boot

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