Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Rahul Sundaram]

R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> 
>> I'd say I can count on one hand the number of distros that aren't 
>> niche-only or effectively "living dead."
> 
> yeah - that Debian will never catch on
> 
> Rank      Distribution      H.P.D*
> 1     Ubuntu         2144
> 2     openSUSE     1870
> 3     Mint         1411
> 4     Fedora         1289
> 5     PCLinuxOS     1125
> 
> source: http://distrowatch.com/

Try finding something more relevant than the number of people clicking a 
particular distrowatch page everyday. By this count, a lot of the very 
widely deployed distros are completely out. Xandros (via eeepc) for 
instance or RHEL which is by far the most popular enterprise Linux 
distribution. A number of customized distros are widely used by never 
reported there either.

Rahul