Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Bunyk <> | Date | Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:45:22 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Suggestion -- Was: Is the boot logo politically correct? |
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Hmm, we need at least three penguins:
1) Funky one --- with beer, sunglasses and whatever one finds appropriate for him/herself.
2) "Dilbertian" one --- rather tired of convincing pointy-hair managers that he is a nice creature, but still wearing a tie and a pen.
3) a world-dominating one, with a martini glass and puffing a nice cigar. (not politically correct, but who would give a fsck ;) ).
And it would be nice to have it stay on screen in background while boot messages scroll by. Actually it is possible to do with a bit of palette magic: say, 128 colors allocated for a penguin, the rest is bright white and one just toggles the MSB in a byte to draw/remove a character dot.
And of course it is completely off-topic for kernel development and no way an excuse for kernel bloat, it is just my terrible headache which makes me write this message. On the other hand maybe someone would find it useful to be able to put something in the background on character console...
Paul
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