Perhaps Linus will be brave enough to stand up to RedHat and request
that they fork Linux 4.x into SystemD so that Linux 5.0 will use SysV as
the reference init. SystemD will eventually replace the Linux kernel so
why not just fork it now and take their followers with them.

On 10/07/17 16:57, Bruce Perens wrote:
> The entire paragraph is even more damning:
>
> And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
> trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.