Re: next release

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:23:37PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm thinking about publishing next version. This version should be 
> considered a completely feature-frozen release.

Any intentions to integrate the "new etherboot drivers" patch?
Quite a lot of new hardware needs it.

> 
> Even though there are some non-fixed issues (such as full 
> Multiboot-compliance), some people claim that GRUB should have a stable 
> release (i.e. version 1.0). What is your opinion? Honestly speaking, I 
> don't care about version numbers very much. If I get no significant 

I agree it does not matter *that* much. Netbooters will have to compile
their grub anyway, as many distros do not have --enable-diskless in
their binaries, and it's not that much work to also apply the patch.
But things are slowly changing - e.g. RedHat's new "stateless linux"
project might make netbooting more common, and I personally think grub
is the best bootloader for netbooting right now (together with PXE or
Etherboot in the client).

> response, I will release 0.96 in a few days.

I must say I do not follow closely, and do not know of significant
changes/fixes since 0.95, so I can't comment on that.
-- 
Didi