Re: Removing System Consoles from Fedora

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan gmail com>]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 10:40 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK no-one is suggesting simply getting rid of the VT consoles without
substituting something else. That would be a dumb idea and I doubt it's
being considered. Alan's message enumerates the uses of VT and it's
clear that these uses aren't going to go away. He even says this
explicitly.

poc