Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Les Mikesell]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 
>>>> I'd expect most people who install fedora themselves to have at 
>>>> least a couple of other OS's running concurrently.  Has anyone done 
>>>> a poll about this recently?
>>>
>>> Why would you expect that?
>>
>> Because it is experimental and high maintenance to run.
> 
> I beg to differ. Building KDE from trunk, now /that's/ "experimental and 
> high maintenance", and even that not so much. The only problem I've had 
> with Fedora 8/9 is the cr*p nvidia drivers don't work quite right on my 
> setup, and that's hardly Fedora's fault.

It is fedora's fault that their policy makes it difficult for you to run 
vendor drivers.  But I think you've been lucky with very common hardware 
or maybe there's been a lull in the serious breakage.  I gave up when an 
update late in the FC6 cycle which should have been stabilized by then 
and didn't need disruptive changes failed to boot from scsi on a fairly 
common dell box.

> Maintenance... sure, I run 'yum update' every few days, big deal :-). 

I don't mind running the update - it's when things don't work afterwards 
or a remote machine doesn't come back after a reboot that is the problem.

> Most of the Fedora-related headaches I run into are from needing a newer 
> package than what's in the official updates due to a requirement in 
> KDE's trunk (like cmake 2.6.2, which I'm hoping will get pushed through 
> before it becomes a hard requirement in a few weeks).

Throw in a few of the third party repositories that you need to deal 
with the policy and legal restrictions on what fedora provides and 
things get even more problematic.

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   Les Mikesell
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