Andrei Popescu wrote:
Other distros use level 5 to start the GUI; Debian however has levels
2 through 5 which are identical. It is up to the sysadmin (you) to
customize the levels to your taste.
I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing for
someone new to Debian.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:08:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing for
someone new to Debian.
It depends what their existing experiences are. I came to debian without
stopping off at redhat or another distro on the way for very long,
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:49:20 +
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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It depends what their existing experiences are. I came to debian without
stopping off at redhat or another distro on the way for very long, and I
don't find it confusing. In fact, I haven't ever customised my
On Thursday 15 December 2005 21:25, Andrei Popescu wrote:
snip
(Re)reading these now puts them in a totaly different light... Is there
still any chance for a standard across distros? Diversity is good, but
sometimes...
To what end? What do you want to gain from diversity, and how does a
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:08:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing
for someone new to Debian. All Linux doc's state runlevel 5 is for
multiuser with X, while Debian gdm installs itself to runlevel 2...
and this is not so obvious
On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:54, Andrew Cady wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:08:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing
for someone new to Debian. All Linux doc's state runlevel 5 is for
multiuser with X, while Debian gdm installs
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:15:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On any system, it seems to make sense that the cli interface is
runlevel 3, and the x interface is runlevel 5. I'm not really sure
what runlevels 1,2 4 are for unless its to be able to customize the
system to do what you want
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:15:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:54, Andrew Cady wrote:
Not all distributions even use sysv style init. It is faulty
documentation that assumes any particular runlevel for any particular
software. That is definitely a
This is my first post, please tell me if I am in the wrong place and
possibly suggest where I need to be.
I am fairly new to Linux. I have installed Suse and Ubuntu. I am really
interested in Debian and have read everything in the install
instructions. I have tried the auto install and the
Charlie wrote:
This is my first post, please tell me if I am in the wrong place
and possibly suggest where I need to be.
This is the place.
I am really interested in Debian and have read everything in the
install instructions. I have tried the auto install and the expert26
install. In
Other distros use level 5 to start the GUI; Debian however has levels
2 through 5 which are identical. It is up to the sysadmin (you) to
customize the levels to your taste.
I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing for
someone new to Debian. All Linux doc's state
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