On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:27 PM, William Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2014, at 11:31, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The issue of VT not supporting unicode, etc is valid, but really, how many >> users actually use a VT any more. To me about the only thing it's useful >> for is typing startx. :) -- or debugging LFS. > > I suppose put out on a mailing list how many users still use VT’s and get a > response. You’ll get a large number that do. A lot of people still use > modems. I’m sure if a lot of people didn’t complain about needing the > feature, it wouldn’t be a reality. Remember, there are billions of people on > this planet with millions of hardware configurations, and most of them are > probably not what you are using. > > Sincerely, > > William Harrington > --
Consider me one of the people who still use the console. My own system, as well as a CD with some nice technician tools (that books up in a couple seconds [well, currently broken, but I plan on fixing it someday]) -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
