Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:37:45 +0200 |
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Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> 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?
Number of characters printed by the kernel (printk()) - sure, still 80 chars to suid everybody (and yes, printk messages show up on system consoles). -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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