[Gllug] ubuntu wireless

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Wed Oct 19 06:28:57 UTC 2005


John Hearns wrote:
> As a learning point, Linux systems do not necessarily have a graphical
> login screen. This only happens when the runlevel is 5.
> At runlevel 3 you get all the same services started, but no graphical
> login. This would be useful if (say) you are running a server and have
> no need for the graphical login on the console. Or say you have a small
> embedded device, which has scarce resources.

This doesn't apply to all distros - Debian (and presumably ubuntu) don't 
use runlevels to configure X.

cheers,

doug.


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