Nate Did you read the devs name?
"According to Ivan Gotyaovich"
link to distrowatch
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community
On 03/30/2015 07:25 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Is this really happening?
>
>> Now it appears as though the systemd developers have found a solution
>> to kernel compatibility problems and a way to extend their philosophy
>> of placing all key operating system components in one
>> repository. According to Ivan Gotyaovich, one of the developers
>> working on systemd, the project intends to maintain its own fork of
>> the Linux kernel. "There are problems, problems in collaboration,
>> problems with compatibility across versions. Forking the kernel gives
>> us control over these issues, gives us control over almost all key
>> parts of the stack."
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community
>
> Our proximity to April 1 makes me wonder, but still...
>
> While there are several quotes in the article from one Ivan Gotyaovich,
> I don't see any links to said quotes which leaves me a bit skeptical of
> the veracity of the article. However, the link to GitHub looks very
> much like a kernel source tree, but I'm not certain that it is an
> official repository.
>
> Before anyone takes this too seriously a bit more research needs to be
> done as we are very close to the date that an elaborate ruse is
> plausible, at least for us in the USA.
>
> - Nate
>