From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 23 14:11:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07618 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07601 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id GAA10650; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:40:39 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id GAA08759; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:40:37 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980624064036.I2801@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:40:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Sue Blake Cc: Bill/Carolyn Pechter , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death References: <19980622084201.30984@welearn.com.au> <18709.898473453@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <18709.898473453@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 04:57:33PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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