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Nice, this might give me the push I need to try BSD on my Dell Latitude 7370 (the XPS 13's cousin). The 3200x1800 display can be a bit hard to read with a defa

Nice, this might give me the push I need to try BSD on my Dell Latitude 7370 (the XPS 13's cousin). The 3200x1800 display can be a bit hard to read with a default console font. Not that I spend a whole lot of time in the console outside of a terminal emulator, but it is still fun :)

devereaux 8y ago
Way faster is to use a proper font on Linux: setfont ter-132n You can then set it as the default font for all your terminals if you like it. If terminus is not provided by your distribution, get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/terminus-font/files/terminus-font-4.46/terminus-font-4.46.tar.gz/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/terminus-font/files/terminus... then ./configure etc. as usual. In the end, you just need to keep the matching psf file that you can then move along your other console fonts.
- heywire 8y ago
  I feel like I tried this on Arch but it was still too small. I ended up using either the sun font or one of the cyr ones, can't remember. I've since moved back to KDE Neon on that machine, so I can't say for sure. I might pop in a USB stick and give it another go...
taborj 8y ago
While I'm a huge fan of OpenBSD, you can actually just run this font on your current distro: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
- heywire 8y ago
  I did notice that, and even available in AUR for Arch. I just wasn't sure if their console font format was compatible with "setfont". Looks like I've got some playing to do (although I'd still like an excuse to give OpenBSD a try :))
h1d 8y ago
If you want to try BSD, you might as well try FreeBSD and save a few headaches. I tried to mimic my Linux shell environment to OpenBSD a few months ago and after a few days, I gave up and used FreeBSD and pretty much accomplished it. I personally like OpenBSD but the manpower isn't on par with FreeBSD to smooth out the edges I think.

devereaux 8y ago

Way faster is to use a proper font on Linux: setfont ter-132n You can then set it as the default font for all your terminals if you like it. If terminus is not provided by your distribution, get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/terminus-font/files/terminus-font-4.46/terminus-font-4.46.tar.gz/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/terminus-font/files/terminus... then ./configure etc. as usual. In the end, you just need to keep the matching psf file that you can then move along your other console fonts.

heywire 8y ago
I feel like I tried this on Arch but it was still too small. I ended up using either the sun font or one of the cyr ones, can't remember. I've since moved back to KDE Neon on that machine, so I can't say for sure. I might pop in a USB stick and give it another go...

taborj 8y ago

While I'm a huge fan of OpenBSD, you can actually just run this font on your current distro: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

heywire 8y ago
I did notice that, and even available in AUR for Arch. I just wasn't sure if their console font format was compatible with "setfont". Looks like I've got some playing to do (although I'd still like an excuse to give OpenBSD a try :))

h1d 8y ago

If you want to try BSD, you might as well try FreeBSD and save a few headaches. I tried to mimic my Linux shell environment to OpenBSD a few months ago and after a few days, I gave up and used FreeBSD and pretty much accomplished it. I personally like OpenBSD but the manpower isn't on par with FreeBSD to smooth out the edges I think.