Re: Fixes for vgafb on 2.1.107

Marc Duponcheel (mduponch@cisco.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 03:08:17 +0200 (MET DST)


Linus wrote:
> _every_ machine I use daily has a screen.
> NONE of them have anything but a mouse connected to the serial port.

Funny to read this.

I have set up many Linux machines (agreed mostly non i386 arch) and all of
them except one (my workstation) don't have a screen or a mouse or a
keyboard. They are controlled via the serial port (often remotely via
commservers or commserver software like 'termnet').

If one boots such a machine with the console output remotely, say, in an
xterm, then one has all output ready for cut&paste.

It's the way e.g. I have always contolled Suns remotely. NT machines need
a GUI to be controlled. Unix machines don't.

-- Marc Duponcheel.
[work] mduponch@cisco.com
[home] marc@offline.be

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