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://xosl-ow.sourceforge.net

For XOSL a general yahoo discussion list exists on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl. This list is the preferred place to send your questions, comments, bug reports, etc. New releases of XOSL are announced in the general discussion list.

Before posting any questions regarding XOSL, make sure you have read this manual. This document covers XOSL-OW version 1.1.6.

For the latest information on the ongoing development of XOSL, refer to http://xosl-ow.sourceforge.net or join the general yahoo discussion list http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl.