Hi Gregg, Thanks for clarifying. It's good to know that I'm not the only one confused by this. So it sounds like the wording on the website is actually reversed, with Grub Legacy being active, and Grub 2 in testing and development and not officially released. Of course this is further confused by "Grub 2" being numbered as "Grub 1.**", but I'm not trying to dispute how the branches are numbered, just how they are explained on the download pages. I attempted to email both Allen Riddell and Robert Millan to make a correction/clarification to the website but the addresses I found for them bounced. Is there a better channel to go through to request that someone review it?
Thanks, Mike On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Gregg C Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > It's not just you. The wording has a bad habit of confusing nearly everyone. > > Ideally the versions of Grub Legacy, such as 0.97 are the active versions of > that one. And indeed it's being used by a number of distributions. > > Grub2 is still being developed. Those numbered ones you've seen there > reflect those first efforts to create something. (or other.) > > Ideally if you do want to contribute the best idea is to pull the trunk from > SVN and work with the contents of the Grub2 directories, carefully. > -- > Gregg C Levine [email protected] > "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] > [mailto:bug-grub- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael > Hughes >> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 7:36 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Grub 2 vs Grub Legacy: verbiage on website >> >> The following pages seem to have their wording mixed up (unless it's me!): >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-download.en.html >> "GRUB Legacy has not been released publicly, but you can still get >> test releases from the ftp site ..." >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-download.en.html >> "GRUB 2 is now available via ftp." >> >> It seems like these are swapped. Isn't Legacy currently available, >> and Grub 2 for testing only? >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bug-grub mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > > -- "First rule of high school is -- don't point out that the teacher knows less than you do. The second rule of course is, if you break the first rule do so in an epic way." -girlintraining on slashdot.org _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
