On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: >> Hello Folks, >> >> Virtual Console support (like ALT + F1, F2 etc. on Linux) went into >> OpenSolaris >> a while back: > I always thought it was strange the Solaris lacked this option. > The only option one had if one logged into a Solaris machine running > in console mode was to use screen.
Solaris has historically been targeted to big-iron enterprise boxes and such features are esoteric in that space. One does not "sit in front" of such boxes in the traditional sense. One will be using serial consoles to remotely manage them. However in today's changed scenario where OpenSolaris is targeting a wider user base, support for Virtual Consoles become important. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
