Michał Górny posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:24:26 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:57:17 +0000 (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> So I really expect people to be switching to systemd 2-3 years from >> now, and that it'll be the gentoo default in 3-5 years, tho openrc will >> almost certainly be supported in /some/ form, at least comparable to >> the kde- sunset overlay and probably officially, at least five years >> out. But a decade out, all bets are off! > > Do you really believe that 2-3 years from now systemd will still exist? > Not systemkit, then syskit, then ...
Were any of the *kits, etc, Lennart projects? IDR reading about pulse, anyway, switching names. Meanwhile, Isn't systemd close to two years old now, already? I'm about a month behind on LWN, but I've kept up with my other community news and haven't read anything of a change yet, and it'd take /some/ discussion and then time to switch to some other name/framework, etc. Given I've not read of any such thing yet, and I suspect Lennart would attempt a veto, in practice I think we're locked in to nearing two years anyway, at least a year. Plus, they're still in the build-up phase with systemd ATM, integrating things like logging (binary-format, no less! <shudder>!), etc. I'd expect them to play with their toys a bit before getting bored and throwing them out of the tram. =:^) But in the 3-5 year timeframe I think it's possible. Thus the mention of hal. And certainly out beyond five years... FLOSS predictions of any sort tend to get fuzzy out past five years; given what seems to be 3-5 year worldview changer event period, but a built-in system reaction time buffer that never-the-less gives you /some/ prediction safety out to five years, /maybe/ seven for the real broad strokes. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
