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Joe Brockmeier, Community Manager, OpenSUSE

Date: Thursday, April 9th
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
Location: Spring C
Summary:

Presentations:

13:00 - 13:45 The Rebuilt Linux Graphics Driver: Keith Packard, X.org Project Lead, Intel Corporation
13:45 - 14:30 State of GNOME: Stormy Peters, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation
14:30 - 15:00 Novell Survey Results: Joe Brockmeier, Community Manager, OpenSUSE
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15 State of KDE: Stephen Kelly, Developer, KDE Project
16:15 - 17:00 Panel: How Desktops Can Work Together: Jono Bacon, Community Manager, Ubuntu, Stormy Peters, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation, Stephen Kelly, Developer, KDE Project, Joe Brockmeier, Community Manager, OpenSUSE

Summaries:

State of GNOME
Stormy Peters, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation
The GNOME project provides a free and open source desktop, accessible to all. Today this desktop is providing the foundation for the desktop of the future, whether it be a web device or a mobile device or a computing platform designed just for children. Working with its core values like accessibility, internationalization and developer-friendly, the GNOME community is working effectively with its contributors and users as well as the companies and other organizations in the industry. Come learn what GNOME is planning for the future and how you can be a part of the GNOME community and help develop free and open source technologies that are building our future.

The Rebuilt Linux Graphics Driver
Keith Packard, X.org Project Lead, Intel Corporation
Graphics drivers under Linux have seen the most significant changes since X was first ported in the year since the last Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. The X server can now run as an unprivileged process; kernel panic messages can be displayed while graphics are active; graphics applications can use virtual memory to store GPU data. In the kernel, these changes include the new Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) and kernel-based video mode setting (KMS). Beyond the kernel, the second version of the Direct Rendering Interface X extension (DRI2) unifies the X and OpenGL image storage space. This talk will describe the kernel and user-space changes along with the other kernel changes necessary to support the new code. Finally, the audience will be encouraged to participate in a discussion about future plans in this area.