Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Les Mikesell]

Brian Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:29 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> 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? 

They are mostly CentOS, but yes, I run X on the ones that aren't 
overloaded or overexposed, but I mostly interact via freenx and a more 
or less roving NX client.  For a long time I used an FC6 box as my main 
desktop machine but for reasons that aren't particularly interesting, 
have moved it to a less convenient location where it continues to run 
tape backups and now park an NX login on one screen of a dual-headed XP 
box and can barely tell the difference.  Which means I can just as 
easily work directly on boxes in remote data centers so I do a lot less 
locally - and I can pick up the desktops on a laptop or my home machine 
with everything still running.

>>> Are you
>>> going to switch from RHEL when this change makes it into RHEL6 or
>>> whatever?  

At least if a change like this happens it would stay for long enough to 
be worth remembering it.

> I wasn't trying to be unfair.  One of the main reasons I use fedora is
> to find out what is coming in RHEL.  I just genuinely curious
> considering that alot of his statements on this topic seem to imply that
> people will leave due to this change (and possibly others).

It's not so much about the impact of any single change that would make 
that would cause someone to switch distros, it is more about whether you 
trust it to be usable in the future, continuing to do as you've learned 
to expect and continuing to run the scripts you've written to it's 
conventions.

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   Les Mikesell
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