Comment Re:Um.. Why cant it be something simple? (Score 1) 156
You see nobody cares about old crap
Indeed, that's why there's no stable ABI: the old crap is removed if new and improved code enters the build(ing).
You see nobody cares about old crap
Indeed, that's why there's no stable ABI: the old crap is removed if new and improved code enters the build(ing).
You can find Tux on women's underwear (Hunkemöller, IIRC) and Belgian chocolates (http://www.belfine.com/en/products/index.asp?t=1&sg=VAL&hg=Reep)
Because they have more faith in the first chapter of the book?
This is on platforms that boot in VGA test mode.
On other platforms, we had kernel mode setting since 1994, through the frame buffer device interface and the frame buffer console. We even got kernel messages printed to the console when running X, but people didn't like them, so they were disabled when the console was in "graphics" state.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn