Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 07:00:05 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Highest version with VGA fonts Message-ID: <139588.14506.bm@smtp112.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1508070335370.27243@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz>
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> What is the highest version of FreeBSD which still uses VGA fonts and CONS* > consoles (i.e. no raster fonts, no unicode, plain old iso-8859-1) in plain > text mode? > Is there a BSD branch that is sticking with true text consoles? > Lars Eighner Not sure about the current status for OpenBSD, Bitrig and DragonFly, but I know NetBSD (current and releng 7), when booting, quickly switches to small text like what occurs in FreeBSD after switching back from X to text console. FreeBSD, on booting with vt, not yet in X, goes into a larger version of this, somewhat smaller than what comes with syscons. I like the small text better! Tom
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