[svlug] mingetty vs getty

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ray Olszewski (ray at comarre.com):

> Is there still a real "getty"? Every system I have ever used actually ran
> agetty (sometimes under the name getty), getty_ps, or mgetty.

My understanding is that the regular, no-modifier getty, these days, is
the one provided by getty_ps.  Confusingly, agetty (from util-linux) is
also, as you noticed, also often called just "getty". 

Of the others, mgetty and uugetty are serial-only (not for terminals), 
while mingetty and fbgetty (framebuffer getty) are terminal-only.

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