Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:42 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Dax Kelson <dkelson at gurulabs.com> wrote:
> >
> > Most (all?) of the technologies you mentioned are cross-distribution.
> > Everybody switched, compatibility across distributions was maintained.
> 
> Right, because it was driven by the desktop, which besides the kernel
> is the only point of technology sharing between vendors that we have.
> Everything in between distributions tend to reinvent in their own
> little sandbox, which is a tendency we have to fight strongly.
> 

Seriously? Daemons like Apache/Dovecot/postfix/xmpp, etc? the service
startup interfaces? Packaging standards? None of these are desktop or
kernel but there is remarkable consistency b/t distros thanks to things
like the FHS and common use.

-sv