I'm a huge Ubuntu fan, and use it every day on both my laptop and primary workstation. But I dunno how much more of this "we're pulling a piece of what is traditionally considered 'Linux' out and replacing it with our own shizz" I can take.
All the people that want what is "traditionally considered Linux" why don't they go and use a traditional Linux?
They idea is that a lot of what "traditionally is considered Linux" (and UNIX) is decades old, designed before the current era of multicore/cheap SSDs/mobile devices/wireless connectivity/laptops/multi-TB filesystems at home/hi-dpi composite visuals/touch interaction/unicode everywhere/etc etc, and is not the be all end all of how an OS should be, nor the pinaccle of OS design...
> "The Snappy project develops libsnappy, a download library based on libcurl. It will support metalinks and segmented downloading. The emphasis is on simplicity and lightness, while providing fast and robust download capabilities"
Does Snappy use ceph?
It would be ultra-cool if I use Ubuntu Core as my server, build a particular configuration that I'm happy with and in a single click is transformed into a Docker package that I can deploy to dozens of machines.
When I started using Linux, there was no package management, glibc was nowhere to be found, there was no "/proc", and so on.
Linux has changed drastically on a semi-yearly basis for well over 20 years, and many of the distributions have changed in vastly different ways.
Packaging systems being one of the things that have diverged the most widely over the years.