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: 4, Insightful) by DECbot on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:59AM
In my previous post, I was off attributing this to systemd, but I think I nailed that everything short of your wallpaper is in Poettering's project scope. Up next, Pottering will solve the Linux graphics stack, from drivers to windows managers and beyond. I'll call it GNOME4 or how I forgot my worries and learned to abandon the Unix philosophy.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Jesus_666 on Tuesday September 02 2014, @02:21PM
That's why Lennart will soon present Lennix version 1.0, a single program that contains everything from the kernel to the init system to the shell to GNOME. This will give you unprecedented boot-to-GNOME performance and thus improve your productivity by orders of magnitude. It will also obviate package management because software packages are only required if your system can run more than one binary, which is completely unneccessary in Lennix.
Future versions of Lennix will also contain all data Lennart thinks you will ever need, thus removing the need to lug around a clunky file system.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 02 2014, @03:07PM
Maybe he could implement in mandatory Australis in addition to GNOME so I can ignore all the things I hate in one place.
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(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Thursday September 04 2014, @04:39PM
...followed by the HURD in a finalized distro called Stallix, paving the new commu^H^Hputing revolution towards prosperity for all Truly Free Software. Hail, user-comrades!
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