Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 05:19:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:13:54PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> And while this was just a naming change.. it was a big deal to the
>> cultures involved. Technical changes on the other hand have a bigger
>
> It *was* a big deal, because at that point, Red Hat had built up a solid
> tradition of making really questionable .0 releases, decent .1 releases, and
> great .2 releases.
>

Yes there is a tradition involved and people put a lot of trust into
tradition to keep the idea that the world is understandable somewhere.
ALT-F1 being a terminal is a tradition built up from somewhere around
MCC and SLS. What some people consider a simple configuration file
change is to someone else something important. And its going to get a
reaction.





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Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"




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