Softpedia News reports that version 2.02 of the GRUB boot loader has been released. Among the many new features are support for LZ4 compression on ZFS, 64-bit ext2, XFS v5, Morse code output and a modem-like output through the PC speaker, Xen paravirtualisation, TrueCrypt ISOs, Apple fat binaries on non-Apple hardware, and 16-bit mode on non-x86 hardware.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:49PM (4 children)
First we had vi, lilo, and sysVinit. Now we have emacs, GRUB, and systemd.
We didn't listen!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:44PM
Emacs is older than vi.
Nice troll though.
(Score: 3, Touché) by darkfeline on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:44PM
Emacs was created the same year as vi.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:26PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:50AM
I never would've guessed this because vi seems so much more *archaic* than emacs.
Emacs is a full screen editor, while vi is at its heart line oriented, with the ability to do full screen exiting only being a later addition (vim).