OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Sep 2009 22:38 UTC, submitted by EvilWells

Developer Frans Pop, author of debtree, posted an article showing the evolution in size of the GNOME desktop environment in recent Debian releases. The picture he paints isn't particularly pretty: the default GNOME install has increased drastically in size over the years.

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RE[3]: Comment by kaiwai

by Morty on Tue 8th Sep 2009 14:46 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Comment by kaiwai"

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The solution isn't even that - what is required is a grand unified HAL which abstracts all what the desktop needs via an abstraction layer so that all one needs to do is port the HAL and the desktop will compile on top. The HAL needs to be operating system agnostic ...

The solution does already exist, and have been largely deployed already. It continue to evolve and improve to cover more and more hardware classes. The name is Solid.

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