Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by Aloha on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:33AM
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am I the only one who prefers a non-framebuffer console?
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I hate the framebuffer console on most of the systems I have.
In some cases, the font is way too small. Changing the font size is confusing, because it isn't clear what size of text you will end up with.
And on some of the systems I have, the framebuffer scrolls so slow!!!!! Drives me up a wall. If it takes more than a tiny fraction of a second to display an entire screen of text, that is too slow!!!! Hate it, hate it, hate it.
Sun workstation framebuffer consoles were like this. Slow scrolling! I'm thinking mainly of Sun-3's and early SparcStations...
even on an Ultra 5 I had, it was slow.
Now that I think of it, I have an Ultra 10 rotting in my basement. I haven't turned it on in over 15 years now.
Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by throwaway2048 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:24AM
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Its not even an option on newer UEFI machines, all consoles are a framebuffer.
Let me rephrase, I don't want a huge screen with tiny fonts for my console, the default should be at most 132x48
Isn't that exactly what this patch addresses? Updating the framebuffer console so it's not horrible on modern framebuffers.
the OS/Distro should chose sensible options out of the box, they usually do not.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks!
Not the only one, but one of the few.
glances at the VT-320 hooked to the OBSD firewalls
I have a WY-185 sitting around, I feel like I should set it up again, on a terminal server maybe
It's a moral imperative. :-)
An elegant tool for a more civilized age.
its also alot of effort and consumes more of my limited desk space ;-)
What is desktop space compared to having a proper console? Do it!
I'm personally after a small HP terminal that was nicknamed the "munchkin" for its diminutive size. My chances of finding one that can be shipped here are slim, but from the US you could have a better chance.
Almost certainly not, but on the other hand there are people who conversely enjoy proper boldface and italics, as Unix text processing tools encompassed pretty much from the get-go; or more than 256 different glyphs in use at once, with none of that faffing about with loadable Unicode-to-8-bit character maps; or MouseText. (-: