[syslinux] Syslinux Project versus its components

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Tue Oct 28 06:06:19 PDT 2008


On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Ryan McLean wrote:

>> Maybe LDLINUX? After all it's called ldlinux.asm.
>
> Maybe it's just me but that name automatically makes me think of 'ld'.
>
> I would be inclined to go for FATLINUX as that follows the naming 
> convention EXTLINUX for ext, PXELINUX for PXE, etc

My biggest concern is that this will break every document and script that 
was using syslinux before. So if we want to call it fatlinux, we should 
still symlink the syslinux command.

But I do think the name change would be better for consistency sake.

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