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Subject: Re: wscons for FreeBSD? 
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In message <200510271147.13917.peter@wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:

>A syscons replacement isn't such an enticing deal if it still leaves all 
>the 'console' issues.  Changing something for the sake of change 
>without fixing the problems just causes transition pain for no benefit.

Agreed.

>Don't forget, we have to deal with the Xservers as well.  Also things 
>like libvgl.  syscons, with all its warts, runs on i386, amd64, alpha, 
>sparc64 and there are patches to make it work on ia64 around somewhere.  

...but studying the source code, one can't help wonder if somewhere
inside there is a small device driver struggling to get out...

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