Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Les Mikesell]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:42 +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote:
>> * Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at greysector.net> [20081029 12:38]:
>>> Well, the community is saying that reason is not good enough.
>>> I think it's fair to ask the package maintainer to reconsider.
>>> Making changes that break years-long traditional behaviour
>>> without community consultation is arrogant at best.
>> Breaking with tradition created things like OS-X (which fwiw is what
>> any sane desktop out there today is trying to emulate).
>>
>> Doing something because "it's always been done like that" is a really
>> bad reason. Doing something on technical merit and changing when a
>> better way to do something is found is what I think should be done.
>>
>> Which tty you run X on I don't really care, as I think the end goal
>> should be to ditch X and do what OS-X did.
>>
>> The biggest innovations happened by not following the sheep.
> 
> Actually, the biggest innovations aren't innovations. More times than
> not they are evolutionary steps taken by slowly modifying an existing
> design. They only look like innovations when viewed from the future.
> 
> A great example: A very bright individual once said to me "we need a
> revolutionary change like the CD was from the cassette tape for music".
> To which I responded:
>    1. the cd was preceded by the less successful laser disc
>    2. they were both preceded by wildly successful vinyl record.
> 
> The concept of spinning media storing data and allowing you to seek to
> any location on the media nearly instantly is not a new idea.
> 
> There's no one working in computing today ANYWHERE who is doing
> revolutionary work. I'd argue there is no such thing as revolutionary
> work AT ALL. Stop looking for it where it is not.

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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