LUG: Nontraditional runlevels on Ubuntu - Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:51:57 -0500

Subject : LUG: Nontraditional runlevels on Ubuntu

From : "Daniel Underwood" <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:51:57 -0500

Does anyone know *why* runlevels are non-traditional for Ubuntu (and
debian based systems)? Example: runlevels 2-5 are fully-on, multiuser,
with X11, whereas traditional unix runlevel 3 is a command-line only
state. (Yes, I know that you can ctrl+F# to a command-line virtual
terminal.) When I entered the "runlevel" command using Ubuntu, I was
shocked to see a "2" instead of a "5". I'm just curious why these
things are so.
--
Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
Graduate Student - Operations Research
email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
phone: XXX.302.3291
web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/

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