diff --git a/papers/runit-as-init.md b/papers/runit-as-init.md index 8574340..3345ff0 100644 --- a/papers/runit-as-init.md +++ b/papers/runit-as-init.md @@ -142,11 +142,14 @@ having everything in Bourne shell is an attractive proposition. It required high wizardry ------------------------- -The head guy from the Archbang distribution tried to duplicate my work once, +The head hacker from the Archbang distribution tried to duplicate my work once, and failed to make everything work. -We never did sort out what he needed to change. -This was not something I'd recommend trying if you're not an expert -and/or unwilling to debug a massively broken system for weeks. + +As of 2020--five years after I wrote this paper--Archbang works with runit! +But according to the "head hacker", X11 still doesn't work quite right without systemd. + +This is not something I'd recommend trying if you're not an expert +and/or unwilling to debug a massively broken system for weeks or months. Stuff that never quite worked