[PLUG] Such a thing as a "single user" Linux?

[Richard Owlett]

Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:15:58PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> When I decided to abandon Windows(tm), besides asking for
>> suggestions I acquired a collection of live-CDs.
>
>> In a way what I'm looking for is CPM-80 for a i386/486/... with
>> apt-get (Synaptic a plus).
>
>
> Tough request.  Do you have a 14" monochrome monitor to support this quest?
> vedit isn't available. joe, the wordstar clone, is.
>
> What do you plan to do in this CPM-like environment?
>
> (and editing inittab to boot to single user mode isn't doing it for you.)
>

I misread that last line a number of times.
I spent several hours trying to read up on runlevels today.
Mangling my college math of >50 yrs past, the vector space of my 
goals is not spanned by run levels. A permutation of runlevels, 
user permissions, and group permissions might span the space but 
would not be orthogonal.