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GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) is a boot loader package developed to support multiple operating systems and allow the user to select among them during boot-up. GRUB was created by Erich Stefan Boleyn and has been further developed under the GNU project as GNU GRUB.

 

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“Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is the next major release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution…The alpha 2 release ships with GRUB 2, the next-generation of GNU’s GRUB bootloader.”
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