On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Russell King wrote:
> James Simmons writes:
> > No it's not a step backwards. It's a step forward. Its just bloat to have
> > a bunch of font sets built into the kernel when you can use a userland app
> > to change the fonts. IMO you should only be able to compile in one font
> > set and use a userland app to change the font sets otherwise. Userland
> > apps are your friend :)
>
> If that is the case, we might as well free up a few more bytes and remove
> the option for the user to pass the font in the kernel argument line.
It would of heading in that direction but 2.4.X is coming out.
"Look it's a text editor, no it's a OS, no it's Emacs"
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