why do we use systemd?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:34:32PM -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> Garry T. Williams writes:
> 
> >On 7-5-14 22:07:17 Garry T. Williams wrote:
> >>whenever systemd determines that the multi-user Target is its
> >>objective.  This corresponds to what we used to call system level 2.
> >
> >Heh.  How quickly I forget.  That should be *run* level *3*.
> 
> How quickly indeed. Run level 3 did not include a display manager. That was
> run level 5, at least on the variants I'm remembering (my very dim
> recollection is that Debian--I might be confused--did run levels
> differently, many moons ago). To my limited knowledge, systemd does not make
> that particular fine a grain of control possible (and, for my purposes, this
> doesn't matter).

I think systemd allows for this.

  3 → multi-user target
  5 → graphical target

FWIW, I think systemd documentation is quite extensive, but definitely
not for regular people.  It is documentation written by developers for
other developers.

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Suvayu

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