Runlevel Gnome System Tool Not Included... Why?

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Fri Oct 1 13:27:44 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 07:30 -0500, Epps, Aaron M. wrote:
> I've noticed that Ubuntu has most of the GNOME-System-Tools integrated
> for system configuration, but why was the runlevel tool left out?  I
> believe GST was included in GNOME 2.8, so was the runlevel tool
> excluded from GNOME 2.8 by the GNOME developers or was it removed by
> the Ubuntu developers?  Just curious why it's not there...

It's not supported by upstream or by Ubuntu. Ideally, desktop users
should not need a tool like this (particularly the current interaction
design), and server administrators definitely shouldn't need it. :-)

- Jeff

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