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Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 13:45 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel by sorpigal
Parent article: Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

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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Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 16:06 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

You certainly can, you just need to configure a runlevel of your choice to work that way.

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 19:51 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]

The average user can figure out how to change runlevels. The average user is going to stumble attempting to configure a custom runlevel.

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 27, 2010 12:01 UTC (Wed) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576) [Link]

The average user will either unplug the ethernet cable, or click on the NetworkManager applet, instead of mucking with their runlevels at all.

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 30, 2010 11:29 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

The average user lives in bangladesh, is 3/5ths female, subsistitence farms, and has 5 children.

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 28, 2010 8:42 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link]

The average user in my household has never heard of "runlevels"

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