Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:23 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > B
> > >> Well, I'm a long time user and I don't see what the big deal is.  There
> > >> are several people on this list which seem to announce that "<insert
> > >> change here> is the one that's going to drive long time users away"
> > >> and/or "time to look for a new distribution" semi-regularly... yet they
> > >> (long time users) are still here.
> > > 
> > > Maybe they just haven't found anything better (yet)?
> > 
> > Or, speaking for myself, not actually running fedora anymore, just 
> > watching to see how much damage is going to make its way into the next 
> > RHEL and clones.
> 
> So, out of curiosity...Do you run X on your RHEL machines?  Are you
> going to switch from RHEL when this change makes it into RHEL6 or
> whatever?  

To be fair, one of the points of participating in the fedora community
and discussion is to influence where rhel is going. We TELL people this
upfront.

So his case isn't without merit. I may not agree with Les often but it's
not like he's coming completely out of left field.

-sv