For some reason I decided to play with my kernel today. So i enabled fbcon support, and decided that I wanted the Helix monkeybutton instead of the penguin on bootup.
Started writing an xpm2linux_logo program. After a while, got it to look like it works. After fixing something I misunderstood, I rebooted and there was the dancing monkey. Unfortunately, I didn't get the palette stuff totally right so it was a bit messed up.
Headed off to work, since Nat was maybe going to get rollerblades. Did a little "research" on the Internet, and found there was (of course) a gimp plugin which does the logo thingie.
Of course it didn't work.
So after some grepping in the gimp source I got it to work. So now I have a nice little monkey when i boot.
The OLS crew are back. Hung out with nat & mig for a while, then went home to sleep.
posted by jacob around July 23, 2000