Thanks. I learned something. Seriously. Also:
"One popular aspect of this is the ability to have console show the Tux logo at boot up." I can definitely see the business case for that. <g> Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How would you like _this_ as your "z/OS has hard waited" message? On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I have several Linux VMs here and they all have a console that looks > EXACTLY like the one that illustrates the article -- straight ASCII, > straight out of the 80's. > > If the illustration in the article illustrates the problem, how could > that display be used to implement the described solution? > > Charles > > That shows what is coming out presently, on the Linux "virtual terminal" (most Linux systems come with multiple logical terminals on one physical display - like the old 3278 with MLT could switch the entire display from one 3270 application to a different one). If you ever boot RedHat Fedora , you would see a graphics "boot indicator" on the PC's screen. The Linux kernel does have the "frame buffer" which is graphics capable. Look at the picture in the upper right hand of the Wikipedia page - URL below. It shows the Knoppix boot screen. In the upper left corner is a picture of the Linux Penguin mascot, Tux. Below that is the "line mode" output from the kernel as it displays boot messages. This is how Linux would display the QR codes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
