On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Ralf Corsepius <<a href="mailto:rc040203@freenet.de">rc040203@freenet.de</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:06 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Ralf Corsepius <<a href="mailto:rc040203@freenet.de">rc040203@freenet.de</a>> > wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:24 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:49:33PM +0200, shmuel siegel > wrote: > > > Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, the code did > that > > > deliberately? Maybe someone thought that it would be a > good idea for > > > usable consoles numbers to start at 1? Or someone thought > that once > > > people started down a certain path with conventions, it > shouldn't be > > > changed unless the people saw a real benefit. > > > > Haven't you heard? If you're not a graphical-only > desktop-type single > > user working on a laptop, you're not relevant. > > Exactly - nothing much to add. > > Time to evaluate other distros. > > > > I can think of better reasons to switch distros other than what tty X > is run on. </div></div>True, but it's one brick in a lengthy series of stupid and silly decisions, which have been gradually running down Fedora into this single-user windows clone it has evolved into. </blockquote></div> I'm not sure why you think it is stupid and silly. Perhaps I have not read this tread closely enough. I personally think it is totally irrelevant and I could care less if X is run on tty1, tty7 or tty4 for that matter. Is there some technical reason to keep X on tty7 other than "that's the way it has always been"? I don't see how tty7 or tty1 makes any difference to a desktop user, or a server user, or a newbie or an expert. Linux has evolved away from many anachronistic traditions of Unix, I don't see how this is any different.