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D-Bus is now mandatory system level software on Linux thanks to systemd. KHTML became the grandfather of practically all modern browsers except Firefox. In thos

D-Bus is now mandatory system level software on Linux thanks to systemd. KHTML became the grandfather of practically all modern browsers except Firefox. In those terms, parts of the KDE project were extremely successful. It's a bit sad that the desktop as a whole didn't profit that much fron that success.

dTal 7y ago
>D-Bus is now mandatory system level software on Linux thanks to systemd Oh, it was mandatory before that, if you wanted a graphical desktop, or the ability to print, or Network Manager to work. Quite a lot of "magic" that doesn't obviously happen through files or sockets, happens over D-Bus.
- gmueckl 7y ago
  But these features are pretty much desktop specific. You didn't really need to run d-bus on a server before systemd happened.
- vetinari 7y ago
  D-Bus is basically standardized marshalling over socket, so all that magic mentioned does happen through sockets.