Reordering the boot for fun and profit
Posted Jan 18, 2008 20:59 UTC (Fri) by
vmole (guest, #111)
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Reordering the boot for fun and profit by sholdowa
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Reordering the boot for fun and profit
This is the only thing that I just can't understand why debian has to screw it up, and use level 2 for everything, graphical or no.
Because when this decided, many years ago, there was no consensus on what belonged in the various run-levels, nor what the default should be. To avoid ongoing flame wars, we decided to just make them all the same, and let the user adjust as desired. This actually works pretty well, since most users don't have any real use for anything between "single-user" and "everything". The growth of wireless and portables has, since then, made such distinctions more interesting, but even then the useful distinction is not "network/no-network" but "which network am I connected to", which runlevels don't directly solve.
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