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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."
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