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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:07:17 -0500
From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:18:19 +0000
"Paul Jewell" <paul@teulu.org> wrote:

> Tbh although I am familiar with lilo from previous use (I started using
> linux in 1995!), I understood it to be deprecated. I like the interactive
> option with grub, and it has allowed me to get out of problems in the past.

Lilo maintenance has been taken over by people at Debian:

http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/

Frank Peters