Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/view/e_sess/5195
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3450
"Did he ever hear about freedesktop.org's desktop bus (http://freedesktop.org/Software/dbus) and their hardware abstraction layer (http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal, http://freedesktop.org/~david/guadec2004-hal-and-gnome.pdf) - First programs for it exist, the virtual file system of GNOME 2.8 will be able to use it. Only purpose of this stuff: Make hardware gadgets easy to use."
I agree it is mostly usable for the home end users, but its not only for hardware gadgets. See above! See any sane review of it. It's for ALL the hardware including when you plug in an external harddive, out in a CDROM, etc etc etc