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.
Chris Kalin Sr. Network Engineer "Leading Upward Mobility" Industries for the Blind, Inc. 445 S. Curtis Rd. | West Allis, WI 53214 p. 414-778-3065 c. 414-238-3914 t. 800-642-8778 f. 414-778-3041 www.IBmilw.com Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any document attached hereto is intended only for the named recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, nor the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message in confidence to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmittal and/or attachments in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Bargmann [mailto:n...@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 > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
