[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Thu Mar 8 15:33:37 CET 2012


'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 08/03/12 14:29 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thursday 08 March 2012 15:17, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> So if we switch to mingetty in getty at .service we'll be sacrificing
>> serial console support.
> 
> Then you're also sacrificing a few braille users. (e.g. blind users.)

Can you give more details on this? Do you know how this was handled in
our inittab setup?

Col


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