On Thursday 07 June 2007 18:37:45 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why? My consoles are *all* still 80x24 text mode. It's only if I decide > > to monkey with the settings (and why fix what isn't broken?) or when I'm > > in X that I get a bigger screen than that. > > > > I think the general consensus on the 80 character lines isn't for the > > average home user, but for the people that have things like old Wyse > > terminals and such hooked up. > > Of course! But I don't write code using the system console nor old > Wyse etc. serial terminal and I suspect (almost?) nobody does that. > > Do you?
No, I don't use a Wyse terminal, but I do a lot of my coding without X running. I don't know why, but it might be because I can then take off my glasses and not have to worry about the characters getting too blurred to read. DRH > Number of characters printed by the kernel (printk()) - sure, still > 80 chars to suid everybody (and yes, printk messages show up on system > consoles). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
