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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