[KLUG Members] X and freedesktop.org

stro members@kalamazoolinux.org
Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:20:58 -0500


Recently Ximian hired Robert Love, a Linux Kernel hacker to work on the
HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) type stuff. 
Check out these cool blog entries:

http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/blog/archives/000302.html
http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/blog/archives/000297.html

There are also a bunch of nifty screenshots of HAL here:
http://freedesktop.org/~david/screenshots/




On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 01:00, Peter Buxton wrote:
> http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5215
> 
> Pre-XFree86 core breakup:
> 
> Hear from Havoc Pennington, Kieth Packard, Jim Gettys and others on
> future enhancements, and the takeup of past ones, to XFree86. Of note: a
> proposed Hardware Abstraction Layer (shades of NT!) daemon, hald, which
> will examine and present devices in the system, such as your digital
> camera, dropping an appropriate icon on your desktop for access.  This
> system will complement sysfs and hotplug/udev.
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