Removing System Consoles from Fedora

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Tue Sep 16 17:20:18 UTC 2008


> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:11 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I said...I don't agree with it...I'm just saying that I understand
>>>> the thinking behind it.
>>>>
>>> Sorry, but I think you don't. You might want to read Alan Cox's message
>>> on the fedora-test list:
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-September/msg00314.html
>>> which indicates that the motivation is much more to do with cleaning up
>>> code and APIs. I fact security isn't mentioned.
>>>
>>
>> Now, I'm going to have to go back to the archives, and reread the start
>> of
>> this thread.  I thought that the original poster was asking about doing
>> so, not about the developers looking to do so.
>>
>> If I missed something in that, and that was not the original poster's
>> question, then I stand corrected.
>>
>>
> The OP asked the question:
>
>   "What is the point of removing the System Consoles?"
>
> after referencing:
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue143
>
> Quote:
>
>   At this point Colin Walters set off a firestorm of complaints and
>   queries when he announced[9], as an aside, that "[w]e're going to be
>   removing the legacy non-X system consoles by default in the long run."
>
> This appears to be related to kernel modesetting, also referenced by
> this link in the same news letter:
>
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting
>
> Quote:
>
>   "...makes Fedora feel more like a polished, professional product."
>
> More like MS Windows, maybe?

In that case, I misread the point of the original post, and stand corrected.

I'll stand down, now.

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