I'm going with "early april fools joke"

On 30 March 2015 at 14:39, Vlad <2389vbl@???> wrote:

> This would IMO be a good thing, as it will limit the interaction between
> Poettering OS and normal Linux, and they would have to fix the bugs they
> create themselves, rather than bitch and moan about the kernel not playing
> well with their software, it would also mean that they can implement stuff
> like kdbus without inflicting it on the real kernel.
> Seriously this if true would be the first good thing to come out of the
> systemd team in a long time, why aren't we funding this?
> On Mar 30, 2015 2:25 PM, "Nate Bargmann" <n0nb@???> 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
>>
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