On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:15:41PM +1200, V K wrote:
> 3=text and 5=gui is Linux standard I believe, LSB probably. As such,
> alternatives only need to be mentioned along the line of "non-standard
> distros may have this at XXX". This standard is a goods thing for
> users, esp newbies and commercial companies thinking about porting
> their wares to Linux.
The LSB is useful for people porting software to Linux, but not so for
newbies. For example, the run level standards recommended by LSB 1.2 are
prefaced with this comment:
"However, it is not required that LSB-compliant run-time environments
use these run levels; the distribution-provided install_initd script may
map the run levels specified below to whatever distribution-specified
run levels are most appropriate. "
So having a system which is deemed to be LSB 1.2 compliant does not
guarantee that, for example, runlevel 3 is multi-user and runlevel 5 is
multi-user with a display manager.
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