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Date:      Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:49:50 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community
Message-ID:  <slrnd588e1.2mpn.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org>
References:  <99f113a61084.4252ff36@etat.lu> <d44995805040605592a7709a2@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2005-04-06, Robert Backhaus scribbled these
curious markings:
> I agree that it would make life more enjoyable for some people, but
> the console is increasingly a fail-safe debugging/configuring
> interface, as more people use X for any work.
> Yes, I would use it myself in places, especially laptops, but I would
> not like it there if it possibly made the console less stable.
> It would want to be very well tested. I'd slate it for 6.Stable, when
> it occours.

Uhm, maybe that's *your* opinion. Maybe you're dependent on X. But I use
my console every day, and nowadays I find myself having more than 10
screen sessions open at once.

Just because you're GUI-oriented doesn't mean everyone else is.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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