From 0894ead1081bd6abc0451083516436133b7974a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:45:10 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] OMG archbang got runit working --- papers/runit-as-init.md | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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