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- Ademan, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1I have to ask, when you say console, are you talking about the virtual terminals? or a terminal emulator like gnome-terminal or xfce4-terminal ? (i suppose the vts are terminal emulators too, but you get what i mean...)
- hex1a4, on 08/25/2008, -0/+0I mean the getty. The TTY terminal you get when you hit Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] (unless configured otherwise). The virtual terminals (gettys) are a remnant from the early Unix days when it was running on mainframes. The OSes needed software to be able to manage the multitude of dumb terminals (keyboard and display). Later this translated to virtual terminals, allowing for different displays (graphical and text) to be run independently on a single box with just one keyboard and display.
VTs are not emulators--they're terminals, used to login and use the system. Apps like the Xfce-Terminal are emulators, because they emulate the actual terminal in which they're running a shell.
BTW, I recently found out why the frame buffer was disabled in Gutsy. Debian replaced the standard getty with agetty which doesn't enable the FB by default. This has been fixed in later releases.
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