Phoronix has an article up about some interesting ideas of Lennart Poettering about what could be a possible future for Linux:
Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision. Long story short, Lennart is trying to tackle how Linux distributions and software systems themselves are assembled to improve security, deal with the challenges of upstream software vendors integrating into many different distributions, and "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @10:46PM
sounds like his personal annoyance with how the current systems work and he is trying to pass it off as a major problem that has a considerable number of people calling for changes,
If that's true then it won't get very far. Linux is far too big for just a a couple of loud-mouths to change.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by NowhereMan on Tuesday September 02 2014, @12:58AM
I'm sure that's what people thought about systemd after the PulseAudio debacle, but these guys have the support of Red Hat and they use that clout to push this stuff onto the distros through dependency issues.