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The target operating systems
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   This specification is targeted toward free 32-bit operating systems
that can be fairly easily modified to support the specification without
going through lots of bureaucratic rigmarole. The particular free
operating systems that this specification is being primarily designed
for are Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mach, and VSTa. It is hoped that other
emerging free operating systems will adopt it from the start, and thus
immediately be able to take advantage of existing boot loaders. It would
be nice if commercial operating system vendors eventually adopted this
specification as well, but that's probably a pipe dream.