Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Dax Kelson dkelson at gurulabs.com
Wed Oct 29 18:06:13 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:47 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Dax Kelson <dkelson at gurulabs.com> wrote:
> > Most (all?) of the technologies you mentioned are cross-distribution.

> 
> the cross distro tty behavior issue with regard to tty initialization
> is a FANTASY. Its is concensus by inaction and a lack of discussion.
> People took an arbitrary inittab example and have propagated
> it..mindlessly. No attempt at cross-distribution standardization
> addresses this as an expectation on behavior.

How the behavior arrived is, for the most part, irrelevant. We have what
we have. Don't break it NEEDLESSLY.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs




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