the Newcons Project

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

My understanding of this whole subject is limited, but bear with me...  in
my quest to get a "cool looking console for my desktop... I found this
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons

does anyone know if someone is still actively working on the NewCons
project? or is it already committed to HEAD and i just don't realize? the
wiki is a bit confusing...

I would VERY much be able to have a console that looked like this in FreeBSD

http://wiki.gentoo.org/images/7/7c/Bootsplash.png

but if my understanding is correct, we are not at this point (yet)... even
if you pull the development source from here

svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/ed/newcons

and change the kernel config like this:

#device vga # VGA video card driver
#device sc
device vt
device vt_vga


could someone with more understanding of this, be able to tell me if the
Newcons project (when completed) is even going to do what i'm looking for?

if so, exactly what things have to be done yet, in order for FreeBSD to
have a console like Gentoo?


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Sam Fourman Jr.