CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Fri Feb 6 10:40:37 PST 2009


pluknet <pluknet at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Scott Long wrote:
 > > I think that this is really neat, you've done an impressive job
 > > with it good job.  However, I do take issue with your criticism
 > > of the ASCII logo; I actually spent a decent amount of time
 > > designing the block text logo =-)  I wish that there hadn't been
 > > moronic politics over the beastie logo, as that does look a lot
 > > better, even if it is text.  And text is still required for
 > > serial consoles.
 > 
 > Hey, then what's about that? ;)
 > [...]

I have to admit that I like Scott's text logo *much* better.

Trying to render the "horned ball" logo with ASCII letters
looks butt-ugly, IMHO.

Best regards
   Oliver

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$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.pl count=1
$ file test.pl
test.pl: perl script text executable


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