It’s time to put another console myth to rest — that consoles are boring to look at. Just to emphasize, this is not Xorg: That is screen with the vertical split patch running in fbterm, which can display wallpaper borrowed from a framebuffer image viewer. No X, no tiling window managers, no fancy kernel recompilation. All that in a measly 27Mb or less, puttering along at 300Mhz and 1024×768. I’ve
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