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D-Bus 1.0 'Blue Bird' Released (KDE.News)

[Posted November 13, 2006 by cook]

KDE.News takes a look at D-Bus version 1.0. "D-Bus 1.0 ("Blue Bird"), the Freedesktop.org inter-process messaging system has just been released. A collaborative effort between industry and open source developers, D-Bus was created to allow arbitrary applications to easily communicate with each other and exchange data. An additional system daemon allows for communication with system services. D-Bus is known to work on all Unix platforms and has also been ported to Mac OS X, while a Windows port is in progress. This makes D-Bus the ideal messaging system for KDE 4."

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Posted Nov 20, 2006 23:11 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's somewhat ironic that KDE.News is looking at this, since at the time of writing a bug in kdelibs-3.5.5 (since fixed in svn) collided with insanely fascist checking in d-bus 1.0.0 to kill your entire desktop on startup. (-pre1 and above changed the default check-failure mode from print-a-warning to abort(), which is to say the least a distinctly unfriendly thing for a library to do and is causing some friction with potential D-Bus users.)