[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty

[Liam R E Quin]

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 17:27 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
[...]
> > Web hosting companies sometimes provide access to a serial console.
> 
> Then I guess they can also take the step of installing agetty or mgetty
> and configure it, since they have to configure it anyway. 

This is not a good argument. You're more likely to find debian, centos,
fedora used by web hosting companies than Mageia, partly because Mageia
is new.  Putting up obstacles isn't a good way to get adoption.

But maybe a wiki page or a forum thread or even this email thread would
be enough.

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