Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:24:23
Message-Id: 20100119142410.35e718ab@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:55:20 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
3 > > That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal
4 > > startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses but it's a bit
5 > > of a sledgehammer for this particular nut.
6 >
7 > Each of my machines has a no-x run level, which omits services such as
8 > X, dbus and hal but does start gpm, network services and (except on the
9 > laptops) numlock. Saves me quite a bit of typing.
10
11 That's what I used to have, until I heard about the nox option. Now I
12 don't bother with maintaining another runlevel.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

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