Eat Burgers on the Short Bus

“Every so often I get questions about D-Bus and I end up giving
a mini-lesson on what D-Bus is and how it’s used. It took me a
while to wrap my head around D-Bus long ago so I don’t expect
everyone to pick up D-Bus like Yo-Yo Ma sight-reading. So this is
D-Bus, simplified.

“D-Bus is just an IPC mechanism, but it layers a few concepts on
top of plain message-passing. It took me some time to understand
how the D-Bus object model really works (long ago of course), so
don’t worry about it you don’t completely understand how it all
fits together yet.”

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