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Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's not just good for the environment, it's also good for open source. In that spirit, open source developers looking to tap into microblogging services can reduce redundancy by reusing the new D-Bus library, Microfeed. The idea is that client applications can focus on the user interface and use Microfeed to fetch and update feeds. The Microfeed library takes care of the backend cruft and developers can focus on differentiating on the front end.

In my travels, I discovered David Zeuthen's informative peek at DeviceKit (and its use with and in lieu of HAL) in the upcoming release of Fedora 11.

Zeuthen says that while the new storage device handling stack is implemented in Fedora's GNOME 2.26 desktop configuration, it should be appearing in its entirety in the upstream GNOME 2.28 release. The DeviceKit daemon modernizes and adds to many of the features and functions of the tried and true HAL daemon.

Via Linux Weekly News comes the tale of Fedora 10's recent troubles with D-Bus. Fedora recently issued a security update for D-Bus which broke a number of applications on generic Fedora systems. One of the areas affected was PackageKit -- essentially leaving those accustomed to updating their systems with the Fedora GUI tools unable to do so in this manner.

The fix detailed by Paul Frields (issuing the command su -c 'yum update' in a terminal window) is straightforward, but it has the Fedora community talking about how to minimize and handle update hiccups in the future.