Go ahead fork it.
I'm confident systemd will modernize Linux servers and desktops alike. And if by next year there is something better, systemd will be replaced.
Just take a look at device filessystems. Anyone remember devfsd? Let me cite wikipedia:
"While devfs was a step forward, it had several disadvantages of its own.[2] Since Linux version 2.5 devfs has been succeeded by udev."
Unfortunately people seem to have confused "this DEVFS implementation" with "The idea of DEVFS" and thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
For comparison FreeBSD has had DEVFS for 14 years and had a prototype for a good number of years before that.
And yes, I wrote that DEVFS for FreeBSD :-)
Go ahead fork it.
I'm confident systemd will modernize Linux servers and desktops alike. And if by next year there is something better, systemd will be replaced.
Just take a look at device filessystems. Anyone remember devfsd? Let me cite wikipedia:
"While devfs was a step forward, it had several disadvantages of its own.[2] Since Linux version 2.5 devfs has been succeeded by udev."