Development
GRUB 1 (also known as "GRUB Legacy") is no longer under development and is being phased out. The GNU GRUB developers have switched their focus to GRUB 2, a complete rewrite with goals including making GNU GRUB cleaner, more robust, more portable and more powerful. GRUB 2 started under the name PUPA. PUPA was supported by the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) in Japan. PUPA was integrated into GRUB 2 development around 2002, when GRUB version 0.9x was renamed GRUB Legacy.
Some of the goals of the GRUB 2 project include support for non-x86 platforms, internationalization/localization, non-ASCII characters, dynamic modules, memory management, a scripting mini-language, migrating platform specific (x86) code to platform specific modules, and an object-oriented framework.
Three of the most widely used Linux distributions use GRUB 2 as their mainstream boot loader:
Ubuntu adopted GRUB 2 as the default boot loader in its 9.10 version of October 2009.
Fedora has been using GRUB 2 as its default boot loader since Fedora 16 released in November 2011.
openSUSE adopted GRUB 2 as the default boot loader with its 12.2 release of September 2012.
GNU GRUB version 2.00 was officially released on June 26, 2012.
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