Runlevel 4 mystery

Runlevel 4 mystery

Posted Jan 18, 2008 4:25 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: Reordering the boot for fun and profit by AJWM
Parent article: Reordering the boot for fun and profit

> More seriously, why does runlevel 4 exist? Somebody must have used it for something somewhere, but no distro that I can recall does.

Slackware uses runlevel 4 as the X11/GUI runlevel (equivalent to runlevel 5 in most other distros). Slackware's runlevel 5 is not used by default but is configured identically as runlevel 3.

Disclaimer: I'm a devout Slackware user (for more than three years, now). I actually use runlevel 5 as my default GUI run level by way of starting kdm via rc.local script.

And, no, I don't defensively ask others what they don't like about .tgz archives (even though I still think sbergman27's post is funny). Besides, we're all Linux enthusiasts, no matter which distro we prefer!

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