[syslinux] Syslinux Project versus its components
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Oct 27 12:14:36 PDT 2008
Hi all,
I have decided to adopt the following nomenclature going forward. I
think it's a reasonable compromise between 14 years of history and the
needs going forward, and IMO looks better than using all caps everywhere:
- The project itself is the Syslinux Project.
- It's primary product is Syslinux, a collection of bootloaders.
- The main components of Syslinux are:
- SYSLINUX, for FAT filesystems;
- PXELINUX, for TFTP network booting;
- gPXELINUX, for advanced network booting;
- ISOLINUX, for ISO9660 filesystems;
- EXTLINUX, for ext2/ext3 filesystems.
I hope this makes a little bit more sense, and at least helps reduce
SCREAMING. ;)
-hpa
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