Rawhide changes: systemd and Fedora 14 branch

There are some interesting changes coming for Rawhide users, starting with the fact that systemd is now the default init system. The early reports are mostly about dependency issues; it's not clear that all that many users have gotten as far as running the new system yet. "I have tested all this quite extensibly on my machines, but of course, I am not sure how this will break on other people's machines. I sincerely hope I didn't break anything major with this transition. So please report bugs and don't rip off my head because I might have broken your boot... I didn't do it on purpose, promised!"

Meanwhile, the Fedora 14 branch is coming on July 27, with the added twist that the project is switching its CVS-based system over to git at the same time. For now, they will be mostly focused on just making it work, but there's some interesting ideas for the future: "Later on we will start to explore more interesting advancements such as automatic patch management with exploded sources, linking to upstream source repositories, automatic %changelog generation from git changelogs, or things I haven't even thought about."

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