[jody at gnome.org: Re: freedesktop.org platform - preparing for release 1]

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:54:05PM -0500, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > Must research these ones.
> 
> What exactly is a freedesktop.org Platform release?

A release tying together the base components of the desktop:
freedesktop.org's xlibs (which most major distros are planning to
migrate to very shortly), D-BUS, Cairo, et al. The X server and other
components are also planned.

> Is it stuff used as a basis for desktop environments like KDE and
> GNOME?

Well, yeah.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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