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

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:
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  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:00AM

    by epitaxial (3165) on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:00AM (#501793)

    Have you ever looked at Libreboot? It only supports a handful of motherboards which are nearly 10 years old now. It should be ready about the same time as Hurd.

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