From: "Andrew McGlashan" <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>

On 31/03/2015 3:15 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:

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And so it continues to consume Linux as we knew it, it most definitely is becoming "Lennart Linux" .. through and through, just read the story.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community

NB: The story doesn't really give much of an opinion, it just shows what is going on.

A.

https://github.com/systemdaemon/systemd/issues

Clearly an early April Fools.... but it is very plausible, this is where Linux IS going.... :(

PC-BSD (a FreeBSD based desktop distribution) is joining in: http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/04/huge-announcement-for-pc-bsd/ "SystemBS-D not only makes your system boot faster, but it can basically manage everything on your system as well. Sure it still crashes a lot and it has trouble displaying log files, but we’re working on that. In a discussion with Kris Moore he stated “SystemBS-D may be unstable, but it DID make the system boot super fast. I feel like that’s a pretty good trade.” Regards Peter