Portland 1.0 released
OSDL has announced the "highly anticipated general release" of Portland 1.0 - a set of low-level interfaces intended to be shared between multiple free desktop systems.
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Portland 1.0 includes a set of command line tools designed to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) install and integrate their applications in the major Linux desktop environments. The programming interfaces, built to specifications established by freedesktop.org, provide developers with an easy method for executing the most common installation and integration tasks." See the project page for more information.