Dbus-Broker 30 Released For High Performance Linux Message Bus

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Dbus-Broker 30 Released For High Performance Linux Message Bus

In the absence of the BUS1 in-kernel IPC mechanism that appears stalled that was started after the failed KDBUS effort, Dbus-Broker has been taking off as the high performance, reliability-enhanced Linux message broker in user-space retaining compatibility with the reference D-Bus implementation...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dbus-Broker-30

[jacob]

I wonder why do most distros (apart from Fedora) stick with the classic dbus implementation? Does dbus-broker actually have some compatibility problems?

[RahulSundaram]

I wonder why do most distros (apart from Fedora) stick with the classic dbus implementation? Does dbus-broker actually have some compatibility problems?

https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/wiki/Deviations has a list of known deviations but afaik there aren't major compatibility issues.

[mmstick]

I wonder why do most distros (apart from Fedora) stick with the classic dbus implementation? Does dbus-broker actually have some compatibility problems?

Now that you mention it, will see if Pop!_OS can default to it: https://github.com/pop-os/desktop/pull/92

[jacob]

Now that you mention it, will see if Pop!_OS can default to it: https://github.com/pop-os/desktop/pull/92

Keep us posted!

[mmstick]

No regressions found. Change merged.