1 <qandaentry id="why-not-new-lilo">
2 <question><para>Why not upgrade LILO to the latest version?</para></question>
3 <answer><para>For now, the book is staying with LILO 22.2
4 because versions of LILO after 22.2 require
5 <ulink url="http://nasm.2y.net/">nasm</ulink>.
6 While there should be no problem installing nasm,
7 the book and many users are reluctant to install an extra package just for LILO.
8 Many users are switching to GRUB.
9 (The book would probably switch to GRUB
10 if the GRUB maintainers made a release they called stable.
11 You could bug the GRUB maintainers if you'd like to see this happen.)
13 <para>Users who switch to GRUB can omit bin86, since it is only used by LILO.