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