On Tue Nov 13, 2001 at 01:31:30PM -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > V> ... Come up with a complete hires framebuffer login with good > V> graphics and people will be more pleased than with some cheezy > V> ansi junk. > > Isn't that what KDM/GDM are for? Whatever it is, though, and I'm not > against a framebuffer login, but it has to be an option. Mandrake > already disqualifies a lot of users by requiring a framebuffer > install program.
Sure, but not everyone (gasp!) uses the GUI. On one of my mdk boxen, I never go into X because I don't need to. That machine is strictly for building updates, so X has no need to be loaded (saves me some memory for compiling stuff anyways). On my workstation, I use GDM, and like it, but I still use the console occassionally (not an xterm). Then I get to see the ugly penguin (well, not anymore). SuSE 7.2+ has a really nice GUI console for vc/1. Very slick. But I don't think it's optional (probably is, but never saw how to disable it). Optional framebuffer login is good. I should look to see how SuSE implemented this to see how it can be done here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen Consulting Services www.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org - MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-31.1mdk uptime: 15 days 0 hours 35 minutes.
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