[KLUG Members] X and freedesktop.org

[Adam Williams]

> 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

Very cool. And I love is commentary on GLADE.  

Honestly I don't know if I am more excited about D-BUS in general or HAL
as an application.  I'm just thinking of a way to acquire a CORBA IOR
that doesn't involve goat's blood and a lock of Hugh Hefner's hair.

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

"Module loaded, device node created, volume automounted, question asked"

I'm drooling.  I have a USB Drive, a USB Camera, a USB Floppy.  Using
them is a *P*I*T*A*.  Where is the floppy? sda? sdb? sdc?  Gotta check
dmesg and /var/log/messages.  To read a floppy!  Currently way to hard.

And the camera occasionally works,  but that may be another problem.

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

Very nice.  SO we can expect this to work on most systems about the same
time as Nat's Dashboard? :) { Another drool worthy app }