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by cwyers 4284 days ago
There really wasn't. It starts off with:

"I’m going to state up front (and people are free to disagree with me) that I believe you cannot provide a distribution of Linux that is both designed for the 'server' and the 'desktop' and provide a product that is worth using on either."

I, uh, what? Someone let everybody know that, as I'm pretty sure all the popular server distros (I guess not CoreOS, but that's pretty new) work just fine as desktops. Heck, Ubuntu is a very popular server distro[1], and it's certainly a desktop distro. And it's not like sysvinit wasn't used on both the server and the desktop.

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/11/openstack-user-survey-...

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> all the popular server distros (I guess not CoreOS, but that's pretty new) work just fine as desktops

CoreOS is basically ChromiumOS minus the GUI. It'd be pretty easy to make a "desktop CoreOS" distribution by adding ChromiumOS components.