dolphin_oracle
syslinux would be used for live-boot on MBR systems, that is correct. the partition table doesn’t matter a whole lot as long as your system can boot from a gpt’s protected MBR.
I don’t know the exact history of why syslinux is used, but its used on a lot of distros for iso and live-USB boots. the antiX graphical boot menus were developed before grub2/UEFI came along, so those are kept where they work, and grub2 was tacked on later for UEFI boots.
