New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel

New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel

After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn’t gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementatio… https://www.phoronix.com/news/BUS1-Linux-2026