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Re: x and console runlevels



On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:00:17PM -0600, Bill Morgan wrote:
> On 3/14/01 4:17 PM, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net> wrote:
> 
> > It's really quite easy.  By default Debian boots to runlevel 2, and xdm
> > (or gdm, wdm, whatever is installed) is started at each runlevel.
>                                        ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>                                                      ^^^^
> 
> This has been puzzling me.  Why is there so little (if any) difference
> between the runlevels 2-5 on debian?  Are they intended as templates
> for the user to customize from?

Yes.  Debian wants the sysadmin to have free reign rather than
locking them into a pre-built structure.

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