1. Introduction

Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL) is the world's only full-featured free boot manager, with a real, easy-to-use and full-blown graphical user interface.

Extended Operating System Loader is an absolutely free boot manager and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. XOSL is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The source code of the entire XOSL project is freely available at the official XOSL web site: http://www.xosl.org

For XOSL a general discussion list exists. This list is the preferred place to send your questions, comments, bug reports, etc, but feel free to mail me personally at geurt@xosl.org. New releases of XOSL are announced in the general discussion list and in the announcement only list. See the references section on how to join either list.

Before posting any questions regarding XOSL, make sure you have read this manual. This document covers XOSL version 1.1.2.

For the latest information on the ongoing development of XOSL, refer to http://www.xosl.org or join the general discussion list.