On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:42 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > I'm still trying to figure out why there's all the love for X on tty7. > > Things change. We adapt. Having the primary interface on tty1 makes > much more sense than it being on tty7. On a semi-serious note, the tty7 > choice is a historical accident...not a design choice. > > OSS has been replaced. > Static /dev has been replaced. > SysV init has been replaced. > IDE drives aren't /dev/hd* anymore. > We're using LVM instead of raw partitions. > > All of these things (and more) caused a bit of trouble when they were > first introduced and then became the norm. > > > Brian Brian, You are comparing apples and oranges. Like I responded to Jeff. Most all of the technologies you mentioned are cross-distribution. Everybody switched, compatibility across distributions was maintained. Books and brains were free to drop the old ways and just document and learn the new ways. This X tty change is not comparable. Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
