Peter Ross wrote:
With the "heart" of the distributions (and systemd is more than init and we do not even now what it is) under a control of a small team which is more or less run by Red Hat, Linux distributions will be as open as.. say OpenSolaris.
IMO the heart of Debian is the Debian Policy manual, which explicitly sides with the integrator when upstreams do stupid things (like putting config files in /lib), so that they get fixed and users end up with a coherent system. I can forgive a lot for that. Re systemd, I recommend reading this: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ I think what systemd has catalysed, will end up with "desktop" linux being a completely separate beast from "normal" linux, the same way android is now. i.e. they may share some common frameworks, but you can't share much work between them. If that happens, I don't know how Debian could support both camps.