Good ${greeting_time}, Maurice!

08 Jan 2015 22:57:18, you wrote to me:

 AV>> Good ${greeting_time}, Maurice!
 MK> Somebody *really* needs to do something about the above.  ;-)

Yes - at least configure their brain to perform on-the-fly substitution.

 AV>> You could try syslinux instead - it's not that bloated as grub is.
 MK> That is even more of a pain in the ass building then grub is on a
 MK> pure 64-bit system. Seems to me the last time I looked it wanted
 MK> nasm which I currently don't have onboard.

/me too:
gremlin@build-x86-64:~ > rpm -q nasm
package nasm is not installed

However, that doesn't prevent me from building
gremlin@build-x86-64:~ > rpm -q syslinux
syslinux-4.05-owl1

 MK> Also it whined about some other stuff I don't recall at the moment,
 MK> but offhand extreme DOS-think comes to mind.

DOS-think? Well... what's Linux-think then?


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Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
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