[Gllug] Debian: Laptop.

[Peter Childs]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Doug Winter wrote:

> On Mon 15 Sep Tethys wrote:
> > I was just trying to work out how Debian people did it without hand
> > crafting something that ended up looking like the "Redhat hack". So
> > far, I haven't found an answer. It seems like the only real difference
> > between the two is that RH comes with sane defaults for its run levels...
> 
> I've never really understood the need - if you want X to start at boot,
> then run a display manager.  If you don't, don't.
> 
> Why would you need to make the decision of whether to start X or not at
> boot time any more than you might want to do so for slapd or squid or
> quake-server or any other arbitrary program?
> 
> doug.
> 
> 

	Every unix system I've ever met has sane runlevels. (SunOS, 
Solaris, Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, BSD, System 5) even if the number 
have different meanings!
	X is usally more optional than most other services. I don't know 
why its different than other services it just is. 
	The reason is I think that if you bring the computer up with a 
strange or new moniter you have to be able to shout stop before it blows 
the moniter up. 

Peter Childs 


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