Comment 295 Re: Really? The console?

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FreeBSD's new console project is almost ready for primetime

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Really? The console? (Score: 2, Interesting)

by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-06-24 16:38 (#28Y)

Maybe I'm old.

I don't get it. VT100 support. Check. Good to go, right? What else do you want from your console?

Not good enough? Fire up emacs and console from there.

What more is there?

Re: Really? The console? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-25 08:56 (#295)

I don't ask much from a console, but my Linux virtual consoles generally look pretty good including - up until recent kernel changes I think - some faint bitmapped graphics in the back. The font is usually chosen to render cleanly at whatever resolution my monitor is running at. On FreeBSD my 1440x900 screen console usually renders as though the terminal were expecting 800x600 and vidcontrol provides some but not enough control over that to make it pleasing to the eye. Sounds like this is an improvement. To me, at least.

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2014-06-25 22:16 Insightful +1 eliphas@pipedot.org

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