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Fedora Stakeholders Discuss Moving Away From Grubby

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It doesn't look like this proposal will end up panning out, but Fedora stakeholders are discussing the prospects of dropping Grubby in favor of just using grub2-mkconfig.

Grubby is the tool that Fedora has been using for updating and display information about boot-loader configurations. Contrary to the name, Grubby not only supports handling GRUB but also other boot-loaders like LILO, Yaboot, ELILO, and Zipl. Those unfamiliar with Grubby can see its GitHub page.

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