On patching usplash, boot times and Live CD

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed May 24 14:42:18 BST 2006


On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:32:25PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote:
> 
> Op 24-mei-2006, om 15:21 heeft Matt Zimmerman het volgende geschreven:
> >We'll likely experiment with this sort of thing once we have a  
> >useful means
> >of logging the boot process (e.g., bootlogd).
> 
> A little question (I'm unable to check this right now as I'm at  
> work): was a new font added to usplash? I created a new BDF font for  
> it and gave it to Adam Conrad, who said he'd try his best to get it  
> to be included, but I'm not sure if it has. I think it would be too  
> bad if this was missed, since a boot screen is a screen that millions  
> of people will see everyday during startup, afterall. It was a  
> monospace font that didn't have some of the rather disturbing shape  
> errors that the Breezy font had.
> 
> Here's the font for reference:
> 
> http://omega.avalanchestudios.net/personal/dropbox/usplash/new/ 
> Usplash_Mono.bdf

I didn't notice a change, no, but the person to ask would obviously be Adam.

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 - mdz



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