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- Miscellany
- Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 7:40:49am UTC
- What's the reason for not using virtual console 1 (/dev/tty1) for these lab exercises?
- Question 4 answers
- Virtual consoles are numbered starting at 0, and there is no f0 function key.
- Virtual console 1 is frequently used by the graphical subsystem.
- Old teletype machines couldn't operate as teh first console, so Linux honors the same restriction.
- The root user can't log in to virtual console 1.
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