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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-March/012841.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-March/012841.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..647f969f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-March/012841.html @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20agetty%20vs.%20mingetty&In-Reply-To=%3C201203081736.48373.cooker%40solbu.net%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="012829.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="012836.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty</H1> + <B>Johnny A. Solbu</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20agetty%20vs.%20mingetty&In-Reply-To=%3C201203081736.48373.cooker%40solbu.net%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty">cooker at solbu.net + </A><BR> + <I>Thu Mar 8 17:36:43 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012829.html">[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012836.html">[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12841">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12841">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12841">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12841">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Thursday 08 March 2012 15:33, Colin Guthrie wrote: +><i> > Then you're also sacrificing a few braille users. (e.g. blind users.) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Can you give more details on this? +</I> +Some braille devices use the serial port in order to operate. +How they communicate I don't really know. + +A blind friend of mine use serial console's when he cannot access the machine via network, during installation and when he cannot acess a system over the network for some reason, and brltty is not installed on it. +I also believe some admins access servers which do not have a screen attached to it using serial console, and they can't or don't want to access it over the network. (A mailserver I used to maintain, had serial console access as requirement from the management.) + +If we are in the posistion to be able to chose between having serial console access or not, and it's not a big change in code, configuration and what not, my vote is to keep serial console access. + +-- +Johnny A. Solbu +PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 189 bytes +Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20120308/9df423a0/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012829.html">[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012836.html">[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12841">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12841">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12841">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12841">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |