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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."
Most of those people are hired and paid by Red Hat to code what Red Hat envision.
What happens right now is the biggest and most agressive consolidations process since the existance of Linux.
systemd and jounald as coreOS that consolidates all we had known. Logging, inetd, sysvinit, timed, udevd, ipc etc.
Gnome3 for dumb people as main Desktop dealing a lot with systems.
Kernel that now implemented kdbus to explicitly communicate to systemd.
Wayland to replace X11 to work close to Gnome3.
All a big consolidation!
linux (kdbus) -> systemd -> wayland / gnome3
What remains from what we know ? Nothing!
I am not against consolidation but I am against this sort of agressive behaviour!
In 2-3 years nothing remains that reminds of Linux to be Unix related.
Even worse there are talks to have some sort of iPhone or Android like package mechanism to place apps with all deps (libs etc) in a sandbox within an apps directory. Even systemd already provides dealing with that.
What kind of OS is that?
Xmonad seems pretty close to perfect.
People hate the Windows 8.1 Metro UI but the rest of it is as good as it has ever been and better than Windows 7.
Powershell is getting better. Linux is getting more and more broken.