X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

[Christopher Stone]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:06 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> > 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.
> 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.
>

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.
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