Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why? My consoles are *all* still 80x24 text mode. It's only if I decide to > monkey with the settings (and why fix what isn't broken?) or when I'm in X > that I get a bigger screen than that. > > I think the general consensus on the 80 character lines isn't for the average > home user, but for the people that have things like old Wyse terminals and > such hooked up.
Of course! But I don't write code using the system console nor old Wyse etc. serial terminal and I suspect (almost?) nobody does that. Do you? Number of characters printed by the kernel (printk()) - sure, still 80 chars to suid everybody (and yes, printk messages show up on system consoles). -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
