On 2011/12/26 15:24 (GMT) Lisi composed:

> 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.

When I say Debian has "two runlevels" I mean two "run" (continuously running) 
levels, and don't count halt or reboot as run, leaving Debian with only two 
"run" levels by default, single vs. everything. I never found any convenient 
+ universal way to customize Debian runlevels, and since I have many systems 
to deal with, I prefer distros with more operational segregation by default, 
which is a distinction of most non-Debians. I don't like that to have 
multiuser with networking to have X also defaulted. It makes X repair when 
necessary more complicated, particularly to describe to someone needing 
generic X repair help.
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