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 Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:18AM
The btrfs developers need to go on the offensive now. They need to make it publically clear that they do not support systemd, that they do not support anyone advocating for the use of systemd, and that they are not in favor of any sort of integration between systemd and btrfs. They need to put an end to these shenanigans before they even begin, solely for the good of btrfs.