I'm sad; I didn't know LILO was on its death bed

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How is "being finished" a "deathbed"? It's a simple bootloader that does what it's supposed to do. Why develop it further?

Technology evolves. It may work for now, but if it's not being actively developed, it may not work with future hardware and software. Moreover, especially with these kinds of projects, an announcement like this can be a nail, if not the final nail in the coffin of it.

Meh.For the past decade or so GNU ed has only made minor style changes to meet toolchain guidelines. It's ok for software to be done.

I remember perfectly the pain to change lilo for the first grub (that I didn't liked so much) in the past, and the frozen L-I...(cric, cric, cric) screen. Seems like ages.

And where it stopped was the error code.

Yes, complicated things where much simpler then. The reiserfs creator was still cool and free, gnome was not a parkinsonian desktop with hyperactivity disorder, Xfre86 was da bomb, star-office, the stupid fire-ants in falcon's eye... and lilo of course.

The good old Woody times... :-)

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