Well, just about nothing happened today, as far as I can tell. I even saw a story about the iPhone on a Linux news site. Hmm… talk about slow news day.

Luckily, one thing did happen after all. OpenSUSE put out beta 2 of their 10.3 release. The list of improvements don’t look all that interesting except for one point:

“Bootloader-related improvements: openSUSE 10.3 will use “chainloader” if it detects additional installations’ bootloader code in other partitions, otherwise “configfile” sections will be used (see Call for Testing below!)”

Looks like openSUSE is going to start supporting multi-booters better. (I never tested it before, so I don’t know how it handled GRUB in the past.) I might have to take back what I said about Dreamlinux being the only distro that I have tried that handles multi-boot computers well. (PCLinuxOS does it fairly well.)

For those who do not know, GRUB is what is called a “boot loader”. Most Linux distros install GRUB into the mater boot record of the hard drive. This is where your computer looks on the HD to start up. In some cases, such as if you already have a working GRUB, you may want to install it to the same partition that the distro is installed to and “chainload”. Only a few distros make this easy.  For more details Google “dual boot with grub” or something, but keep in mind there are many ways to dual boot and this is just one of them.