Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Re: Localization of Linux

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> James Simmons <jsi...@ac...>:
> > We hope. I had a talk with Alan Cox about that. He doesn't care for the
> > idea of terminal emulation modules :(
> 
> What is his objection?

Bloat. He doesn't even like the idea of posix termios in the kernel. 
He feels that userland should define any other type of console. 

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