Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:40:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <19980624064036.I2801@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <18709.898473453@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 04:57:33PM -0700 References: <19980622084201.30984@welearn.com.au> <18709.898473453@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 21 June 1998 at 16:57:33 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Just to add to the motivation... I've spoken to a few people lately who >> have several Linux boxes and started converting them to FreeBSD, then >> changed their minds. One complaint is that FreeBSD won't talk VT100 >> in a way the Linux boxes can understand, and vice versa. It's not so > > I'd have to say that they most likely changed their minds for other > reasons and you're just hearing one small side of the story. Anyone > insufficiently motived to find out that there's a vt100 capable > console driver sitting in LINT (which is itself pointed to no less > than 10 times in the handbook and twice in the FAQ) with the following > comment at the top: > > # Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver > > Is not someone who's going to last much beyond the next minor hurdle, > whatever that might be. That's a pity. I'd guess that 95% of the non-hackers have never even heard of LINT. Without having their heads stuck into it, I doubt they'd ever check LINT to see if there's an alternate console driver in there. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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