[ale] Changing run levels

[Michael Golden]

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 20:41, Adrin wrote:
> Does anyone know how to shutdown KDE?  I want to change to just the runlevel
> and not have X running?  Since I am not really on the system it is a waste.
> No matter what I try I still have the KDM-greet screen which is running
> under X?!?!

In /etc/inittab change id:5:initdefault: to say id:3:initdefault:


> Next one is one I thought of while running an errand.  Just wondering 
> if there are reveres compatibility problems with Kernels and 
> software.  

Yes, such incompatibilities do exist. In some cases it is because a
program relies on a bug in previous libraries or the kernel such as was
shown a while back with RealPlayer. Other times, newer versions of
libraries come out which break compatibility such as between KDE 1 and 2
and what will happen between GNOME 1.x and 2.0. Another example of this
was libc5 to glibc. Things such as WordPerfect 8 for Linux require libc5
which afaik is quite antiquated now. In many distributions you will find
packages which start with compat-somelibrary-x.x to provide libraries
for these types of programs to work. As far as kernel level I'm not sure
but I would not be surprised at all.

Michael

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