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Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora
An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat developers doing some holiday hacking have managed to get a bootable system with systemd + KDBUS on Fedora 20. KDBUS is a new DBus implementation for the Linux kernel that provides greater security and better performance than the DBus daemon in user-space. Systemd in turn interfaces with KDBUS for user-space interaction. Testing was done on Fedora 20 but the systemd + KDBUS configuration should work on any modern distribution when using the newest code."
Canonical is innocent - it's Red Hat's doing. Just like Pulseaudio and a million other innovations (some good, some less then good). But Red Hat has had a hand in most of the desktop development that people see.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
KDbus is being done by Greg K-H of Linux Foundation. There are some good reasons for having a kernel bus. The first rev was killed, but the second rev is being worked on. Linus has already signed off on getting this integrated. It's just a matter of working out the details. A lot of this is driven by desktop projects, so things like smooth transition to a login screen, wayland, application sandboxing are good reasons to have it.
Even on fast SSDs I've never seen 8 cold boot it in 3 seconds. 9-12ish maybe. Add in windows networking and it's much slower. Also Windows delays a lot of tasks so you are to the GUI but your actual services are not running yet. In the server market your boot speed is highly dependent on network resource dependencies with varying delays.