Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Brian Wheeler]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:29 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:23 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > > B
> > > >> Well, I'm a long time user and I don't see what the big deal is.  There
> > > >> are several people on this list which seem to announce that "<insert
> > > >> change here> is the one that's going to drive long time users away"
> > > >> and/or "time to look for a new distribution" semi-regularly... yet they
> > > >> (long time users) are still here.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe they just haven't found anything better (yet)?
> > > 
> > > Or, speaking for myself, not actually running fedora anymore, just 
> > > watching to see how much damage is going to make its way into the next 
> > > RHEL and clones.
> > 
> > So, out of curiosity...Do you run X on your RHEL machines?  Are you
> > going to switch from RHEL when this change makes it into RHEL6 or
> > whatever?  
> 
> To be fair, one of the points of participating in the fedora community
> and discussion is to influence where rhel is going. We TELL people this
> upfront.
> 
> So his case isn't without merit. I may not agree with Les often but it's
> not like he's coming completely out of left field.

I wasn't trying to be unfair.  One of the main reasons I use fedora is
to find out what is coming in RHEL.  I just genuinely curious
considering that alot of his statements on this topic seem to imply that
people will leave due to this change (and possibly others).

*shrug*

I literally have a shed that needs painted next spring, perhaps I should
ask on here?

Brian