Re: vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community

From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet_at_coitusmentis.info>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:49:50 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2005-04-06, Robert Backhaus scribbled these
curious markings:
> I agree that it would make life more enjoyable for some people, but
> the console is increasingly a fail-safe debugging/configuring
> interface, as more people use X for any work.
> Yes, I would use it myself in places, especially laptops, but I would
> not like it there if it possibly made the console less stable.
> It would want to be very well tested. I'd slate it for 6.Stable, when
> it occours.

Uhm, maybe that's *your* opinion. Maybe you're dependent on X. But I use
my console every day, and nowadays I find myself having more than 10
screen sessions open at once.

Just because you're GUI-oriented doesn't mean everyone else is.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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Received on Wed Apr 06 2005 - 16:03:32 UTC

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