Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities.

One change that will surprise some readers is Limine 9.0 doing away with EXT4 file-system support as well as older EXT2 and EXT3 support. The change-log notes of dropping the EXT4 file-system support:

  • Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social
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    3 days ago

    But no vendor actually implements any with the exception of those forced to include APFS by Apple.

    Actually some vendors implements NTFS driver in their UEFI as well.