GRUB 3

GRUB 3 is the actively developed version of the GRUB bootloader.

GRUB 3 has the following features:

• Basic functions are easy for an end-user to use.
• It compiles!
• It's GNU software.

In addition to the requirements above, GNU GRUB 3 has the following additional features:

• HURD!
• Support multiple users.
• Supports LDAP with automatic replication for Microsoft Open exchange.
• Supports human-readable XML configuration files.
• Supports multiple storage backends for XML configuration like MySQL and Mongodb.
• Supports atomic O(1) cyclic module dependency resolution
• Distributed peer-to-peer MapReduce technology.
• Multibyte character set encoding policy rules configurable.
• RESTful XML advertising management APIs for 3rd party licensing.
• Conforms to all W3C standards and is 100% ISO compliant.
• Native support for pulseaudio.
• Geometry translation matices.
• 3D-Menu interface using shader 8.0
• Takes full advantage of OpenCL-capable video cards.
• Automatic JIT (just-in-time) and java bytecode compilation.
• Seamless distributed transaction management failover handling.
• Support for automatic self destruct.
• Detection of all installed SSH2 fingerprints.
• Support for Lost Block Address (LBA) mode.
• Utilizes modern dynamic programming techniques.
• Overcomes the halting problem by applying itself to itself.
• Comes with a port of amarok 2 and TLMC builtin.
• Is the only bootloader Kant would approve.

The following features where dropped:

• Multiboot and ELF support
• chainloading
• PC BIOS