Re: Re: live cd
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On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 01:03, Svante Signell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Excuse me for jumping in here. I'm one of the lurkers. I have been a
> supporter of GNU for many years and have followed the GNU development
> long before even Linux was born. I am still a fan of GNU idea an
> appreciate very much the (L)GPL compared to other "free" licences. What
> is sometimes very frustrating though is the stubbornness to add features
> to a specific tool, e.g. Grub in this case. Another more famous example
> is the CVS issue. If there had been some openness of the goals of CVS
> tools like Bitkeeper would not even exist (Larry McVoy go disappear
> somewhere).
>
> Other examples are Emacs vs Xemacs, gcc vs. egcs etc. I don't have a
> proposal for a solution, maybe I'm just frustrated. On my to do list is
> still to install Hurd on one of my computers to really get going with
> the real GNU thing, not just Linux. BTW: Is it true that the L4 will be
> distributed under a BSD licence, not (L)GPL?
>
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 01:20, bddebian@cox.net wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>
> > > Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 06:53:11 EDT
> > > To: Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org>
> > > CC: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: live cd
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:21:36PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> > > > I asked for CD boot support in GRUB about 2 years ago when I was
> > > > with Progeny. I was told it would *never* happen. GRUB with
> > > > CD boot support would be fantastic.
> > >
> > > GRUB 0.9x is semi-frozen in upstream. You'd be better of adding it to PUPA,
> > > the next generation of GNU GRUB:
> > >
> > > http://www.nongnu.org/pupa/
> > >
> > > --
> > > Robert Millan
> > >
> > > "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
> > > thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
> > > gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
> > >
> > > -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
> > >
> >
> > Marco and I will add it to PUPA!! :-)
> >
> > Barry deFreese
> > HaXX0r wannabe
> >
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