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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:41AM (1 child)
UEFI is whatever the programmers make it, as long as they stick to the spec. It is so much more than x86/x86-64 from Intel and AMD. It can be used on any little-endian processor (section 1.8.1). You could have a completely FLOSS version running on RISC-V, if you want.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:33AM
Sticking to the spec and not deleting files if asked when the spec says you must not, for example, sure.