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I thought to roll over to Slashdot today and have a look, and I saw the following comment (on a story about Ubuntu adopting systemd) modded up to 3:

Can someone explain to us Windows and OS X users, without using acronyms and Linux-only mumbo-jumbo, what exactly is systemd and why do we keep hearing so much about it?

Telling us to go read a wikipedia page probably won't help because it will be either too long to read, too complex or require knowledge about other topics to understand.

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No idea why this keeps getting rejected by Soylent eds, but anyway, there's a full 30-minute TV interview done with Snowden (in Russia) for German TV. 15 minute versions are floating around on the mainstream news outlets (except for from the broadcaster for Germans only), but you can see the interview on LiveLeak or the Internet Archive. Full transcript available from NPR.