NVidia Debian thread

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 12:47 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:08, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>
> >> But we're not talking about UNixes, we're talking about Linux, and Debian
> >> is the only one that effectively ignores the entire runlevel concept for
> >> no apparent reason.
> >
> > 	I wouldn't say that it ignores run levels, just that it has a slightly
> > different way of organizing them (as it does many other facets of Linux). Run
> > level 0 = full stop, run level 1 = single user, run level 2 = multi-user &
> > run level 6 = reboot. IANAE but I think the only real difference, here, is
> > that using run levels of 3, 4 or 5 is left to the discretion of the user.
> > IIRC this is quite similar to COL except that COL didn't start the X-server
> > until run level 3 or 4, but I could be mistaken.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that Caldera started X in runlevel 5.

Huh, I thought that they pretty much lifted the entire RH distro cleanly
to crank up Caldera, then modified from there. They surely intended to
encroach the RedHat commercial/server side of their business. That's
where the money was/is. So, they would have kept it business as usual
with regards to how things worked ala RedHat. I dunno, Kurt knows far
more of this history. Ric
 
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