Request: Display using Linux fbdev if possible

[pcwalton]

As far as I can tell, fbdev is as near as you can get to the official Linux way to display images in the terminal. (It's used to display penguins during startup, for example.)

https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv is an image viewer that uses this.

[nabijaczleweli]

X-posted from roddit:

See, the thing is: I know things like that have been done before (despite not knowing the name at the time) and wanted to do something different, something that'd make my "product" not be "the next X", that's why the tagline is "[...], sort of" and "as best as it can" in various posts (twatter, this roddit thread).

That, and I don't have access to a Linux machine I could compile it against/test it on.

Feel free to PR it in, though, that can just be enableable via a switch.

[joshtriplett]

Several methods exist to display images on a Linux framebuffer; that seems quite orthogonal to displaying images on a character terminal.

[nabijaczleweli]

Josh knows what's up