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July 13, 2009, 6:15 am
July 13, 2009, 6:15 am
One of the biggest secrets of FOSS’s success is a well-crafted set of interfaces amongst the various components. Although famously not set in stone, these interfaces permit different FOSS projects to work for the most part separately, while still coming together as a coherent system. Such interfaces are clearly a key topic for the Linux Plumbers Conference.
Therefore, I am happy to announce that Jim Gettys, one of the original evelopers of the X Window System, past VP of Software at OLPC, now at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, has selected a great lineup from a set of excellent submissions to the “Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces” microconference…