Have they really settled?
In the 90's we had the UNIX wars.
Nowadays we have the GNU/Linux wars.
Each distribution does its own thing and every disagreement leads to yet another fork.
In the 90's we had the UNIX wars.
Nowadays we have the GNU/Linux wars.
Each distribution does its own thing and every disagreement leads to yet another fork.
What i do mind is how existing, well established distros are being hijacked by stary-eyed techies rather than spinning off their own proof of concept that others can adopt if they want to or not.
Especially when said hijacking happens not overtly but subversively by tightly integrating previously separate projects to create a TINA situation.
I upvoted your question because as far as I can tell, you are the only person here to ask it.
The real sticking point were distro package managers and the odd file placement difference (mostly regarding where to put the rc script to have things start on boot).
This meant you could not just put a package out there and tell some clueless web monkey to go curl it straight into production as root. And IMO that was a good thing.
The wide acceptance of systemd was an example of the convergence of the main distros. I didn't mean you to infer it was some sort of prerequisite.