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GRUB 2.02 Released

posted by martyb on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the download-it-now dept.

butthurt writes:

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.

Further information:
NEWS file

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:26PM (#501714)
    The first version of Emacs called Emacs was released in 1976, after Guy L. Steele and David A. Moon finished the work unifying all of the custom macros that the MIT AI Lab accumulated after Richard Stallman’s new version of the TECO E editor permitted extensibility. Stallman’s new version of E was arguably the original core of Emacs, and dates to at least 1974, possibly slightly earlier. Vi on the other hand, was built by Bill Joy around 1976-1977. So it could be said that Emacs slightly predates vi.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:50AM (#501766)

    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).