Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Dax Kelson]

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