Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Alan Mackenzie wrote: I'm not sure I prefer the alternative, something like Ubuntu or PCLinux, where you just shut your eyes, lie back and think of South Africa, not knowing quite what's getting installed on your PC. Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: That's not a very nice comment to do. Please, keep

Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:46:49PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: [ ] That's not a very nice comment to do. Please, keep your feelings about continents/countries/Linux distributions out of here. Sorry for causing offence. It wasn't intended. I'll be more careful about what I write in

RE: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikos Vassiliadis I'm not sure I prefer the alternative, something like Ubuntu or PCLinux, where you just shut your eyes, lie back and think of South Africa, not knowing quite what's getting

Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-02 Thread Gabriel Linder
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:20:29 + Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, FreeBSD! I'm a long time GNU/Linux user, and I'm considering changing over to FreeBSD. Why? To escape the upgrade tread-mill. Every time a new Debian release comes out, I say Oh no, not again!, scarcely looking

Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Is it possible I've missed something relevant? Or is there some sort of add-on utility which would give me consoles with (approximately) 128x48? vidcontrol(1) -- it's part of the base system. My hardware is a desktop PC

Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-02 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 02 August 2007 15:20, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, FreeBSD! I'm a long time GNU/Linux user, and I'm considering changing over to FreeBSD. Why? To escape the upgrade tread-mill. Every time a new Debian release comes out, I say Oh no, not again!, scarcely looking forward to the