On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:24:39 +0000
Lisi <lisi.reisz@...> wrote:

> On Monday 26 December 2011 15:10:08 Felix Miata wrote:
> > Now with System V init having been replaced or set for replacement, my
> > distaste for Debian clumping of everything into only two runlevels may
> > disappear, which in turn might lead me to a new preference.
> 
> That's only the default.  It is not compulsory.  And there are four on my 
> Debian machines, 0, 1, 2, 6.  I know that the rpm distros use different 
> runlevels - e.g. run-level 5 is the equivalent of Debian run-level 2 - but 
> surely they  only have the same number of levels by default, just with 
> different numbers allocated to one or two of the levels?  Extra ones can be 
> added in both types of distro.  0 and 6 are surely the same.  And I thought 
> that 1 was too, but it is several years since I looked at this, so I may be 
> wrong on that.

Varies by distro, I think.  Gentoo uses a default set of four named 
runlevels (sysinit, boot, default, shutdown) with distinct purposes,
but I know OpenRC isn't quite like most distros' init systems.