[lug] X, Window Managers and KDE/gnome 101

[Nate Duehr]

Yeah, I was careful to say "Popularized" and not "started" because I
knew other distros had done it before RH, but people hadn't really
started equating runlevels to X until RH did it in 5.1 and above.  (Or
at least that's when most folks I know who accidentally made this
distinction started using RH.)

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:51:03AM -0700, Andrew Diederich wrote:
> > From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate at natetech.com]
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:55:56AM -0700, Tkil wrote:
> > > depending on what "run level" the initdefault is set to, your linux
> > > box will boot to either a text or graphical login screen.  in the
> > 
> > Not true.  This is a "RedHat-ism".
> > 
> > There's no direct relationship between whether or not X starts and the
> > run level of the machine unless you make it so. 
> > 
> > RedHat has chosen to do so, and they automatically start X (I believe
> > using XDM) whenever the system is at runlevel 5.
> 
> [Debian snipped]
> 
> > I'm not sure how the other distros do this, but I just wanted to make
> > sure that everyone realizes that the "a certain runlevel causes X to
> > start up" is strictly something that RedHat popularized.
> 
> [rest snipped]
> 
> I'm pretty sure my Slackware 3.0 worked this way, and that was in the 1.2.13
> kernel days.  I still have the floppies, but probably won't install them to
> check.  *grin*  Hmm, I have some floppies older than that, too.  I wonder 
> what's on them?
> 
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> Andrew Diederich 
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