[ale] Good text based live system

[Joe Knapka]

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>What is framebuffer, please ?
>  
>
(1) A special cloth that you can use to really bring out the shine in
your frame; or

(2) A dedicated memory region, usually on a video card, that
maps the video screen. For example, the first four bytes
might represent the R,G,B, and transparency values of the
top left pixel, etc.  Linux has generic drivers that can work
with the framebuffers in many video cards, but this tends to
be quite slow compared to drivers which take advantage of
a card's unique hardware capabilities.

Cheers,

-- JK