On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:22:56 -0500 Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> I agree. I have read all the current threads and the few words which struck me with greatest force were in a post from Marti Raudsepp, where he said that an advantage of systemd is "... less fragmentation between Linux distribution". I have been full time on linux for nearly 13 years now, with the most recent five of those on Arch, and for me one of the principal attractions of the OS has always been fragmentation between distributions. The recent changes to Arch (and I dare say other distros which I do not monitor), all seem to me to point in the direction of drab ecumenism - eventually "One distro to rule them all ...." Sooner or later Arch will be distinguished only by its excellent rolling release model and the wonderful pacman. Perhaps all this was inevitable. I do not intend anything I say as a criticism of the devs - it is their distro and they are entitled to do what they choose with it. But it does make me sad. Geoff
