LILO

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

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What Wikipedia says

LILO (Linux Loader) is a bootloader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions prior to the widespread adoption of GRUB in the early 2000s. Unlike loadlin, LILO allowed booting Linux without having DOS on the computer.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “LILO (bootloader)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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