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If anyone is considering using a computer like this, I'd recommend OpenBSD for it which genuinely has one of the prettiest console fonts. It just ... Looks nic

• em-bee 5mo ago
  what are the names of the fonts are they using? i found something here, but i am not sure if these are the right ones: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/pcvtfonts?sort=File https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/pcvtfonts?sort=Fil...
  • skydhash 5mo ago
    Those are fonts you can load with the vga driver. Anything recent will load with the drm driver (intel, amd) or framebuffer. This emulates a text mode (rasops) on a graphical surfaces (vga has dedicated text mode), and for that they use spleen. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/dev/wsfont?sort=File https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/dev/wsfont?sort=File https://github.com/fcambus/spleen https://github.com/fcambus/spleen And yes, it’s quite nice.
    • em-bee 5mo ago
      awesome, thank you. i remember vga vs framebuffer, and the time when linux made the switch. i was there, many thousand days ago. i might even have recognized that had those files mentioned vga somewhere in the path or contents. spleen looks good. i am using gallant right now which is based on the old sparcstation console font: https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant
• treve 5mo ago
  I've been wondering if I can somehow get the Toshiba Satellite VGA font back to today.