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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 19:48 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did |
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> opine thusly: |
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> It has support for jpeg, every fs under the sun, and the grub2 ebuild even has |
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> a truetype USE flag. |
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Does it support mp3 or ogg vorbis? Don't tell me I can't make it play |
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the fifth when it boots... |
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> Yes! Now my life is complete. I've been DYING for years to have a bootloader |
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> that can properly display anti-aliased fonts for the entire 2 seconds it's on- |
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> screen |
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I just hope that it is actually able to work in plain VGA mode. Although |
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I like to have framebuffer in the console, I don't think it's actually |
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needed in the bootloader. Also, I suppose it'll be a PITA to configure |
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that (or slow to run it) on some older computers. |
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Nuno J. Silva |
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gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg |
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