On 2013-04-12 19:34 (GMT-0700) Linda Walsh composed:
Realistically we only used runlevels 1, 3 and 5
That is: single use with networking turned off; multi-user with networking tuned on; graphical mode.
On linux, 'S' became useful -- it came up before the boot scripts were run. There are around 19 uniq (39 total) scripts in /etc/rc.d/boot.d.
We still have those, its just that we now have clearer names rather than numbers.
We now have long complicated to type and no auto-completion long names...
As has been reiterated on this list today and less recently, single digits on kernel cmdline via aliasing of some sort still perform in 12.3 and Factory the same function as they did in 8.1 and 10.0, just as "init 3" in a shell is aliased to "systemctl isolate multi-user.target". Everything good about the old way has not yet been disposed of.
If they were a menu, that would be 1 thing. They are not. They are something we have to type. Short is better.
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