Re: FYI: story on LWN.net

[Robert Millan]

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 :-)

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Robert Millan

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