Linda Walsh said the following on 04/12/2013 10:34 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Patrick Shanahan said the following on 04/12/2013 07:54 AM:
They have not *really* been "done away with", but have really changed considerably in ?definition?. Runlevel is/was a system state where certain capabilities are present such as (loosely) 5, the graphical state, and 3, multi-user/networking state. Now you have targets which have similar names and capabilities but are not numbered and represent a "dynamic" state where the deamons may not be active but will be called if necessary.
Indeed.
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.
And how was it useful? What are you doing with it? How did you get there? Are you saying that with systemd there is nothing that can be put on the boot command line to achieve the same end? I hope that's not what you're saying, I hope you're only saying that you are unaware of such and I hope that you are going to be asking what that would be and if there is a short form.
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...
No not HAVE TO but CAN CHOSE TO. You can still put 1, 3, 5 on the command line. Please stop asserting misinformation.
If they were a menu, that would be 1 thing. They are not. They are something we have to type. Short is better.
No, short is not always better. That's a stupid myth. Linda, you're the one that always goes on about the merits of LILO. Surely its in your ability to add the lines to LILO to give that menu offering the other boot options? -- "Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." - Theodor W. Adorno -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org