XOSL - Conclusions

Conclusions

Other reasons for the success of xOSL include its compact size. Its primary location is in the MBR where it references items on the physical hard drive for its GUI and other features. As long as a drive is formated in FAT32, xOSL does not require additional partitioning. The FAT32 drive on which xOSL resides does not need to be the first partition of the drive.

Other features include:

  • Graphical User Interface
  • Full windowing system with mouse and keyboard support
  • Resolutions up to 1600x1200
  • Configurable mouse speed
  • A set of color schemes
  • Several color adjustment options
  • Password protected boot configuration and settings
  • Restart/Reboot/Shutdown

Booting Features:

  • Up to 24 boot items
  • Microsoft file system partition hiding support
  • Storing additional keys before booting
  • Can automatically switch the boot flag to whichever partition is being booted. Although XOSL does not use the boot flag to decide which partition to boot, this helps to ensure that a Windows system being booted (for example Windows XP) will assign the letter "C:" to its partition.
  • Automatic booting (with timeout)
  • Auto boot last operating system
  • Password protection per boot item
  • Boot master boot record on any drive
  • Boot DOS/Windows 9x on any drive
  • Hotkey per boot item
  • Support for hard disks larger than 8Gb
  • Coexists with virtually any other boot manager
  • Runs Ranish Partition Manager 2.38 beta 1.91 (ver 1.1.5 and above)
  • Master boot record virus protection

The continued development of xOSL is almost entirely dependent on individual user contributions and community participation.

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