Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
<fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> I hereby propose we add a Checkbox (¹) "Old-School Linux user" somewhere
> to anaconda; users that want to preserve the traditional behavior for this
> and other things (like "show grub by default") can then just check that to
> get the old behavior.


Just as long as "old school" also gets rid of udev and everything hal
or dbus related and brings back magicdev AND linuxconf! Oh and turns
off selinux off...gives me ipchains as a firewall and disables ssh and
gives me rsh instead as the only remote shell....and gives me a fvwm
desktop using xdm as the login manager.

-jef"seriously the udev/hal stuff was a far more fundamental and far
reaching technology shift than which vt X is running on. The flipside
to all the arguments here is all gettys could be off by default unless
local admins want them on..and at that point its a customization and
admins can do whatever the hell they want with their gettys.  I admin
a small number of systems, and the reality is I can actually live with
gettys off by default. If I need them I can enable them on the systems
that need them."spaleta