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Re: Survey: What do you run first after you boot Slackware?

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On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:38:32 GMT, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:

...

> My workstation and laptops do boot into run-level 4, where X starts up.
> I'm pretty sure that I don't have any special environment setup prior to
> X starting, but I'd have to review local documentation to say that with
> complete certainty.

I use run-level 3.  Configuring the environment before starting X is 
handy.  For example my MWM configuration includes a specification that 
causes "Setup" to appear in the root menu (available by right-clicking 
the desktop).

Clicking "Setup" in the root menu invokes function wm_setup which, thanks 
to prior execution of /mnt/joe_root/begin, is available in the current 
environment.

> Now. to answer the question that I *think* you were really asking,
> I'm afraid that it's not really any more informative than my "init"
> answer, though it's just as truthful: whatever the system in question
> was running just prior to my shutting it down.  The systems have their
> purposes: mail server, web server, etc.  When they're booted, they go
> right back to serving those purposes.  The workstation and laptops go
> back to running X and waiting for me to ... do whatever I'm going to do
> next.
> 
> In my case, these systems are up 24x7, reboot only for patch cycles, and
> the majority of them (save for a couple of virtuals running "other"
> Linux) are running Slackware, so there isn't really a "when I boot into
> Slackware".
> 
> It occurred to me, only after reading the content of your original post,
> that you were probably aiming the question at folks who aren't running
> Slackware Linux 24x7 ...  I chose to be a smart-ass and answer anyway
> ...

That's OK, I deserved it.  Not everyone boots daily like I do.  I can 
understand that.  With a fleet of machines to manage, you need global 
solutions.

Yet other paradigms might have use cases.  For example, my wife and I 
currently run a tweaked-clone version of Slackware from a flash drive on 
our respective machines.
See https://rosevearsoftware.com/products/sam/libraries/Zombie

-Joe

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Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-06-25 18:44 +0000
  Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-06-25 21:19 +0000
    Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-06-25 22:36 +0000
      Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2026-06-26 21:38 +0000
        Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-06-29 00:17 +0000
  Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Lumin Etherlight <lumin+usenet@etherlight.link> - 2026-06-27 21:41 +0300
    Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-06-29 01:02 +0000
  Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 06:57 +0000
    Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-07-04 00:36 +0000

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