Re: [PATCH] File access library for lua

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:10:36PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 17:27 +0800, Bean wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Some bug fix for osdetect.lua, it also detect windows 98/me, freedos,
> > msdos and freebsd.
> 
> Why FressDOS and FressBSD?  I assume it's typos.  Why isn't Linux
> capitalized?  MS-DOS is written with a dash.  "Windows Vista bootmgr"
> should be "Windows Vista" and "Windows NT/2000/XP loader" should be
> "Windows NT/2000/XP".  It's not like we are just booting the loaders.

But when we're booting a kernel (Linux) we just say that.  Shouldn't we
be consistent and say "bootmgr" and "ntldr" too?

Btw, to make this even more interesting, there's also freeldr, which can
be used to boot either Windows NT/2000/XP or ReactOS.

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