Keeping up with the Kroah-Hartmans (who upgrade without notice) [LWN.net]

Keeping up with the Kroah-Hartmans (who upgrade without notice)

Posted Aug 4, 2006 17:36 UTC (Fri) by bfeeney (guest, #6855)
In reply to: Keeping up with the Kroah-Hartmans (who upgrade without notice) by Sho
Parent article: New kernels and old distributions

Actually there are ongoing efforts to port HAL to FreeBSD and to
OpenSolaris (the latter being headed by the Nexenta people I believe).
It's unlikely to remain a Unix thing for very long. In the meantime, KDE 4
will feature the Solid library to handle hot-plugging: it'll use HAL where
available, and system specific code otherwise. I don't think Gnome has any
specific plans as yet.

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