Hello. My question is 'What is the current status of virtual consoles?' I know this question was asked earlier in the forum, but all I can find are off-topic replies! Is there an answer to the question in one of the posts, hidden amongst the spam? If there is, then sorry - I did not find it.
From what I can understand of the proposals posted in the forum, it all looks very good, but probably a bit over the top for what I actually need at this stage. But has any code been written yet? And is anything available for testing with Solaris Express? What I would like, is to be able to use Solaris in the same way I often use Linux - Just press Alt-F1, Alt-F2, Alt-F3, etc, & switch to a different console. Often I don't even use X on a Linux server, as having multiple text consoles is sufficient for what I want to do. When I show my colleagues Solaris, they are amazed that you cannot just switch consoles, as Linux makes it look so easy. And the feature has been in Linux for such a long time. I'm fairly new to Solaris, so maybe I'm missing something obvious & there is any easy way to have Alt-F# consoles, that I have not found. If so, I would appreciate some advice. But, assuming I do need 'virtual console', then my bottom line is, when is this likely to be available in Solaris Express? Thanks Nigel Smith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
