From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 16 14:51:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA21120 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21089 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA03461; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:44:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608162144.OAA03461@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Opinions? NT VS UNIX, NT SUCKS SOMETIMES To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:44:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608162136.PAA08388@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 16, 96 03:36:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The SysV of 'multiple run-levels' is something I've yet to see used. > Even the most hard-core SysV gurus use the two available in BSD, > single-user and multi-user. How about: 1) "permanent connection exists"? 2) "transient network connection does not exist" 3) "transient network connection exists" I could see these all being options that you would want to support: 1) My computer is docked in my office 2) I am on a plane to the East Coast office 3) I am in the Eact Coast office with a WaveLAN/IR PCMCIA card installed to connect me to the lcoal net. Each of these are different "run levels". Obviously, the idel would be to autodetect and run variant configurations as necessary; however, practically, you are just moving the selection, not the fact that you want seperate run states. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.