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." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
