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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: 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).