The references to runlevels are a bit strange, as they are not defined by the kernel and the Debian system doesn't distinguish runlevels 2-5 either (it's left to the administrator).
Posted Oct 26, 2010 0:35 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
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I'm pretty sure that the reference to runlevels is a shorthand for how much he's gotten to work. So the runlevel 3 on his Atom machine means he has tested networking but not X11, while runlevel 5 on the Macbook means he can run X11.
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Posted Oct 26, 2010 0:54 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165)
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I was about to say the same thing.
1: single user
3: multi-user
5: mu + X
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Posted Oct 26, 2010 8:09 UTC (Tue) by wash (guest, #70825)
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Posted Oct 26, 2010 12:50 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
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Despite the fact that many people list runlevels with these meanings, in Linux it's just a convention used by some people and not intrinsic or a commonly accepted rule. I boot to runlevel 2 always, because higher numbers are ostentatious.
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Posted Oct 26, 2010 13:45 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
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Yeah it's kinda stupid that in Ubuntu, which uses the "rl 2" semantics, you can't deactivate network by changing to another rl.
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Posted Oct 26, 2010 16:06 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
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You certainly can, you just need to configure a runlevel of your choice to work that way.
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Posted Oct 26, 2010 19:51 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165)
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The average user can figure out how to change runlevels. The average user is going to stumble attempting to configure a custom runlevel.
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Posted Oct 27, 2010 12:01 UTC (Wed) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576)
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The average user will either unplug the ethernet cable, or click on the NetworkManager applet, instead of mucking with their runlevels at all.
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Posted Oct 30, 2010 11:29 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
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The average user lives in bangladesh, is 3/5ths female, subsistitence farms, and has 5 children.
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Posted Oct 28, 2010 8:42 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)
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The average user in my household has never heard of "runlevels"