On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 10:41 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote: > From what I can gather from the osl2000 web site, XOSL is an entirely > different boot manager. > > I haven't tried the osl2000 product, but based on the screenshots, I'd > still prefer XOSL. > > It looks like the original web site is down, but is mirrored here, > including the download section as well as the docs and screenshots. > > http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org/ > > I wasn't able to discover whether osl2000 fits inside the MBR, though I > am guessing that it does because it claims not to need a FAT or NTFS > partition to install into. Based on what I read, XOSL does a better job > of hiding partitions, and since it does not have to fit into the MBR, > offers the ability to have multiple backup copies of changed MBRs as > well as lots better graphical setup and configuration screens. > > Take a look at XOSL and let me know what you think, you've got osl2000 > experience and I don't. > > Rick Kunath
Looks good Rick... I've downloaded it and might give it a shot when/if I have to do a reinstall... Right now, I'm very happy with osl2000. It even enables me to boot into Linux from my XP desktop, if I should want to do that... - Jack
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