Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:06:21AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

> I don't quite understand the obsession with making boot time faster 
> anyway.  Machines should only boot when they have a new kernel to 
> install.  If they aren't needed all the time they should sleep or 
> hibernate, waking up with everything still running.

And when we've reached the flying-car future where suspend/resume is 
actually reliable on Linux, I'll agree. But we're not even slightly 
there, and as a result the boot process remains an interesting area of 
optimisation.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org