SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off an MS-DOS/Windows FAT filesystem. Syslinux is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, and for creation of rescue- and other special-purpose boot disks.

SYSLINUX can be used, when properly set up, to completely eliminate the need for distribution of raw diskette images for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been created.

What's New in This Release:

· gPXE has been integrated with PXELINUX.
· This allows network files to be accessed over protocols other than TFTP.
· TFTP no longer requires a server that can present the "tsize" option.
· SYSLINUX has added VFAT long filenames.
· chain.c32 can now access files directly when loading NTLDR (WinNT) or kernel.sys, io.sys, or ibmbio.sys (DOS).
· chain.c32 can now also install a drive-swapping stub for BIOS, which allows cross-drive booting of Windows.
· The complex menu system should now work as advertised again.
· USB keyboards have been fixed on some systems.