[$] Fedora approves a smaller GRUB
Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. By Joe BrockmeierJuly 29, 2026 Leo Sandoval and Marta Lewandowska have put forward a change proposal for Fedora 45, which is expected in October, to provide a separate, slimmed-down version of GRUB for a niche use case. The new package would be in addition to the main GRUB package and would not replace it for the majority of Fedora users.
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- ▪By Joe BrockmeierJuly 29, 2026 Leo Sandoval and Marta Lewandowska have put forward a change proposal for Fedora 45, which is expected in October, to provide a separate, slimmed-down version of GRUB for a niche use case.
- ▪The new package would be in addition to the main GRUB package and would not replace it for the majority of Fedora users.
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Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. By Joe BrockmeierJuly 29, 2026 Leo Sandoval and Marta Lewandowska have put forward a change proposal for Fedora 45, which is expected in October, to provide a separate, slimmed-down version of GRUB for a niche use case. The new package would be in addition to the main GRUB package and would not replace it for the majority of Fedora users. The idea met with some resistance from Fedora contributors who thought that it would be better to use systemd-boot, or another modern bootloader, rather than trying to wrangle GRUB into a suitable state for the use case.
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