Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist

[Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>]

On Thursday 07 June 2007 18:37:45 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> 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?

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).