GRUB 2 and GRUB Legacy

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GRUB 2, which is a rewrite of GRUB, is alive and under development. GRUB 2 aims at merging sources from PUPA in order to create the next generation of GNU GRUB. A mailing list and a wiki have been setup for discussing the development of GRUB 2.

GRUB 2 has the following tasks:

    * Create a compact core image. This will make Stage 1.5 unnecessary.
    * Add support for dynamic loading to the core image, so that it can extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time.
    * Add real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.
    * Add a more object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, and OS loaders.
    * Add support for internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on.
    * Add an actual localization, based on the above internationalization support. We will target on Japanese as the first step.
    * Segregate code specific to i386-pc from generic code, to make GNU GRUB portable.
    * Add support for cross-platform installation.
    * Develop additional software packages which will help our project and hopefully other projects.
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PUPA

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Important Notice: This project is not used any more, because we moved our effort to GRUB 2. See GRUB web site, for more information.

PUPA is a research project for the next generation of GNU GRUB. The most important goal is to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, and more powerful.

Our tasks are as follows:

    * Create a compact core image. This will make Stage 1.5 unnecessary.
    * Add support for dynamic loading to the core image, so that it can extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time.
    * Add real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.
    * Add a more object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, and OS loaders.
    * Add support for internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on.
    * Add an actual localization, based on the above internationalization support. We will target on Japanese as the first step.
    * Segregate code specific to i386-pc from generic code, to make GNU GRUB portable.
    * Add support for cross-platform installation.
    * Develop additional software packages which will help our project and hopefully other projects.

We might tackle on these issues as well:

    * Add a scripting language, to make GNU GRUB more customizable.
    * Add support for other architectures (such as UltraSparc and PowerPC).

This project is supported by Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
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