On the Scene at the Boston Desktop Linux Consortium (Linux Journal)
Here's a Linux Journal report from the
Desktop Linux Consortium conference. "
"The Open Desktop: Freedesktop.org", a presentation given by Havoc Pennington (from Red Hat, but he was presenting as a member of freedesktop.org) was most interesting. This site is hosting some intriguing technology specifically geared toward solving basic issues, including integrating applications with differing toolkits and developing specs and recommendations for common technology. The idea is all of this can be shared by GNOME, KDE, other window managers and toolkits. Freedesktop.org has become the host for many stable projects, including fontconfig. Keith Packard's fontconfig has done wonders to bring badly needed sanity to font management in XFree86. Freedesktop.org also is hosting other, more experimental software."