Removing System Consoles from Fedora

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:11 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> > As I said...I don't agree with it...I'm just saying that I understand
> > the thinking behind it.
> 
> Sorry, but I think you don't. You might want to read Alan Cox's message
> on the fedora-test list:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-September/msg00314.html which indicates that the motivation is much more to do with cleaning up code and APIs. I fact security isn't mentioned.
> 
> poc
> 


It's still a stupid idea.  There's no good reason to get rid of the vt
consoles; they've been there for a very long time on rh, I use them all
the time.  As does alot of other people.  As one other user pointed out
on the link that *you provided, the lack of vt consoles is the number
one problem with another distro, according to it's users.

LX