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Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora

Posted by timothy on from the trying-new-things dept.

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."

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  1. Re: "Slashmirrored" by SumDog · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My first experience with systemd was on OpenSUSE. Although it seems like a good idea, it seems to add some unneeded complexity. /etc/init.d/someservice restart now redirect to systemctl, with no real output. Oh I have to run status to see if it succeeded. Now I have to use journalctl to see why it failed.

    I'm all for dependency based init systems, but I feel Gentoo got that right with OpenRC. It gets rid of all that rc1,2,3,4,5 crap while keeping the /etc/init.d/ structure we're familiar with.

    Gentoo can not be setup to use systemd too. I guess it's now the future; better get use to it.

  2. Too much navel gazing by Sri+Ramkrishna · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Too much navel gazing about change. Here is the reason behind kdbus. Primarily it's for application sandboxing and making sure that a bad actor does not do something bad to something else. As GNU/Linux gets more popular, we want to be able to make sure that we can contain bad actors as much as possible. It's also a step in the direction to have a universal app spec instead of having to have each distro package the same damn app. I miean, how much duplicate work do you want to do? It makes it easier for people who write apps to have GNU/Linux as a target instead of having to pick the most popular distro at that point of time.

    http://lwn.net/Articles/551969/

    Linus is okay with it. Have to worry about Al Viro. :-)

    Here is an updated talk by Greg K-H that he gave on KDbus, he posted this about 3 days ago. https://github.com/gregkh/presentation-kdbus

    Let's stop all the FUD, and educate yourself on the reasons behind on this.