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Re:DBus and Systemd by actionfromafar on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @03:32AM (#40498332)
It's the unix way /s

COM (dbus) + Registry & services (systemd)

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Re:DBus and Systemd by pjmlp on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @06:11AM (#40499150)
While you are joking, COM was born out of the UNIX way, more precisely Distributed Computing Environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environm...

Then we had that great experience called Taligent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent

And naturally CORBA,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...

NeXTSTEP's Portable Distributed Objects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Distributed_Objects

Which inspired Sun's Distributed Objects Everywhere written in Objective-C, followed by its reboot in Java as Enterprise JavaBeans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhere

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