2012/8/15 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
Am 14.08.2012 18:19, schrieb Brandon Watkins:
Systemd isn't going anywhere anytime soon, its going to be adopted by RHEL (which means it would also be adopted by RHEL derivatives like CentOS), and its being adopted by major distros like fedora, opensuse, mageia etc...
What are those "major distributions"?
1) Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and derivatives 2) Fedora and derivatives 3) openSuSE 4) Arch 5) Mandriva / Mageia 6) Slackware 7) Gentoo
That's about it. As you see, I included Arch up there. As far as I can see, after Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and openSuSE (in no particular order), Arch has been number 6 on the list of "major Linux distributions" (excluding professional stuff like SLES or RHEL) for several years.
What I am trying to say is: It no longer suffices to say "we follow the major distributions" when making a decision, as Arch itself is a major distribution now.
Still, your point stands: Redhat will be funding systemd development for quite a while.
As a rolling release, Arch is usually the leader of adopt new technology. But now, Arch is falling behind Debian now. So sad. Chao