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New Chameleon Announced!


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Zef posted this on the Chameleon site today:

 

<strong>How do you mean customizable?</strong>You can replace all the images, the icons, the funny chameleon artwork, the fonts. Also you can set the background color, the transparency levels, the dimensons, positions of certain user interface elements. The image resource files can be either embedded into the booter or can be loaded at runtime by using a special .plist style configuration file.  

 

<strong>Doesn’t embedding the images makes the boot loader too large?</strong>

 

With the current set of icons, images, fonts embedded, the booter size is about 300k. Without embedding the resources you will get about a 110k large booter. The maximum size of the booter is 392704 bytes (383.5k).

 

<strong>What image formats are supported?</strong>

 

The booter has built-in support for true color 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit transparency layer. We wanted to offer a high quality lossless image format which can be created, edited with many graphics applications across all platforms.

 

<strong>What if I still prefer the text mode interface?</strong>

 

We can’t switch between text mode and graphical mode at the moment after the booter has been started, but you still have a Boot.plist option to disable the GUI. This way you get the well known text based Darwin boot menu.

 

.....Read the rest on the Chameleon blog page here.

 

Hi Res images are available on their blog. <strong>IT IS NOT OUT YET SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING</strong>

 

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Zef posted this on the Chameleon site today:

 

 

 

Hi Res images are available on their blog. <strong>IT IS NOT OUT YET SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING</strong>

 

<strong>24.png</strong>

 

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Amazing work! Can't wait for this! It looks so much better (in my opinion) that the older versions.

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Zef posted this on the Chameleon site today:

 

 

 

Hi Res images are available on their blog. <strong>IT IS NOT OUT YET SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING</strong>

 

<strong>24.png</strong>

 

<strong></strong>

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WOW!!! That is the nicest and best bootloader I've seen!!! If I install Chameleon, will it overwrite my GRUB??? Also, will I still be able to use the Vanilla kernel??? GOOD JOB GUYS!

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how about some form of hardware detection and the possibility to load different extension.mkext accordingly ...

 

that would be a revolution on the community. Just imagining a truly unified retail install ...

sorry for dreaming ;)

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