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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."
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 02 2014, @05:31PM
It is blatantly apparent that RH and its minions want a more OSX like system where things "just work". And by just work I mean they want to unite Linux into a unified OS where a distro is just a skin on top of a common OS core that eliminates the fragmentation of distributions. Just have a look at OSX: Unix bits under the hood with a common interface and libraries on top. To the hardcore user it still works like Unix. But to the layman, it is a shiny bubbly easy to use OS that looks cool. This is the goal of RH. Not a bad goal but not a good one either. Distros will be nothing more than a collection of hand picked packages, logos, icons, wallpapers and boot splash screens. Software projects just worry about linking to the new core Linux OS API's, and distributing a binary package. Done. Sounds good on paper but there is a disturbing concentration of power in the court of RH.