I hope it's absolutely true. Do all the ripping out and rebuilding in their own tree, and if Linus et al don't want to merge the changes back into mainline, distro users can use a sane kernel. Keep your peanut butter out of my chocolate, as it were.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Bargmann [mailto:n0nb@n0nb.us]
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 6:25 AM
> To: Devuan project
> Subject: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke
>
> 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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