A more standard understanding of the difference between a console and a
terminal is that a console is a means of screen access directly
connected to the server hardware (serial or direct connection) while a
terminal is relative to network initialized instances.
David M. Patronis wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 23:42 -0700, abhishek misra wrote:
> > what is the difference between terminal and console in Linux terms
> >
> > Let me know if following understanding is correct.
> >
> > Terminal is an interface between the user and Linux system, which user
> > to make requests to the system , the system can present its response
> > and also error messages if any.
> > Under Linux each terminal is represented by a device file listed
> > as /proc/tty
> > There are three types of terminals serial, virtual and pseudo . The X
> > Window System uses pseudo terminals
> >
> > co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 115200 vt100-nav
> > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> > 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> > 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> > 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> > 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> >
> > # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> >
> > The above suggests that 'co' or console is actually the serial
> > terminal
> > 1-6 are virtual terminals (clt-alt F[1-6])
> > x is the pseudo terminal used by the X Window System
> >
> > the login program is run on all these terminals for given set of run
> > levels
> >
> In common parlance, "Terminal" is the Gnome command line interface,
> while "Konsole" is the KDE command line interface. This is what many
> average users will likely be referring to when one term is used in favor
> of the other.
>
> David
> >
>
>
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