Ian Jackson:
This argument is not really about service startup, though. It's
> about systemd's graphical console management, its replacements for
> syslog, cron, ntpd, acpid, etc etc etc.
Marco d'Itri:
Kernel developers have been explaining for years that we need a user
> space console to properly support things that are not well supported
> now, and I do not see anybody else writing one...
... which is the result if one has one's eyes tightly shut. User space
replacements for Linux and BSD kernel virtual terminals have already
existed, and been written, for years. There's a whole non-Anglophone
section of the planet that has been relying upon things like zhcon
(https://packages.debian.org/jessie/zhcon), a userspace virtual teminal
that has been around since 2002, for years. fbterm
(https://packages.debian.org/jessie/fbterm), another userspace virtual
terminal, has been around since 2008. Ali Gholami Rudi's fbpad
(http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpad.git) has been around since 2009. I myself
wrote a white paper on the subject in 2006
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Proposals/linux-console-daemon.html)
thinking about such things as security partitioning, allowing multiple
simultaneous renderers, and retaining the functionality of screen
readers like BrlTTY (https://packages.debian.org/jessie/brltty). I
ended up implementing an entire application-mode console subsystem for a
non-Linux operating system first.
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