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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Lines: 8 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <EAC652.IBv@nonexistent.com> References: <337A4307.3BF9@vertexcomm.com> <87lo5gfn6s.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> X-Trace: 863890452 21279 le [165.254.191.2] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 17:34:14 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41138 Peter Mutsaers (plm@xs4all.nl) wrote: : : One real minus of FreeBSD: the console is pretty lame when compared to : Linux. There is no equivalent to SVGATextmode and svgalib. No nice : high resolution text modes. So you're more forced to always work : inside X-window. Are people working on this??