On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 16:22 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Text support is hard. Text support requires ongoing maintenance (even > at iso-functionnality). Our GUI environment has gotten good enough > people that used to do console maintenance have less and less > incentive to do so, Rubbish - You are comparing apples and oranges. Using consoles has completely different use-cases than desktops. This thought might be incomprehensible news to kids who grew up with Windows, but ... > and as a result the console is slowly rotting > (ascii-only text + qwerty is easier and not exhibiting a lot of rot so > far, but that's only a question of time). Even hardcore kernel devs > will tell you to just use and xterm instead of bothering with console > problems nowadays. Of cause it's more convenient to use an xterm than a console. But this already had been the case 20 years ago - it doesn't invalidate reasons for using consoles. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
