On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:02:16PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Arthur Pemberton
<pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Matthew Woehlke
>> <mw_triad(a)users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>>> No,
>>> thanks; I'd rather have X fail to start and dump me at a normal console
from
>>> which I can fix the problem *without rebooting*, much less needing to dig
up
>>> a rescue disk :P.
>>
>> I believe we already do that today, and am not advocating removing
>> that functionality if possible. Anyways, I've said what I need to, so
>> hopefully people won't be surprised later.
>
>
> I'm confused. Is Fedora really going to remove non X consoles?
I'm talking about the direction and technology of the desktop product;
What is reason for this "direction"? I still don't see any technical
reason. What is wrong with mingetty(8)?
BTW, "We're going to remove..." -- who is "We"?
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com>