Page shown from here. Go to page 1 Zoom out
------
Home

Welcome to freedesktop.org

freedesktop.org is open source / open discussion software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops. The most famous X desktops are GNOME and KDE, but developers working on any Linux/UNIX GUI technology are welcome to participate.

freedesktop.org is building a base platform for desktop software on Linux and UNIX. The elements of this platform have become the backend for higher-level application-visible APIs such as Qt, GTK+, XUL, VCL, WINE, GNOME, and KDE. The base platform is both
software and specifications.

Software

freedesktop.org hosts any "on-topic" software projects. If you have a project that fits into our mission and needs hosting, please make a request using our bugzilla. Mailing lists about freedesktop software are hosted here.

Standards

freedesktop.org is not a formal standards organization, though some see a need for one that covers some of the areas we are working on. For Linux operating system standards, look at the Linux Standard Base project. The X.Org Foundation and the IETFare other groups that do formal standards. The Free Standards Group is one group that publishes "de jure" standards for free software; freedesktop.org is loosely affiliated with the FSG.

Unlike a standards organization, freedesktop.org is a "collaboration zone" where ideas and code are tossed around, and de facto specifications are encouraged. The primary entry to these discussions is the xdg mailing list.

Getting Involved

You can get involved in a number of ways. See the MissionStatement for our principle activities. See GettingInvolved for concrete suggestions on how you can contribute. See AccountRequests for information on how to obtain commit access to a project. See
NewProject for how to start a new project.

Contacting freedesktop

If you have any comments or questions about this site please send a message to the xdg list. If you see spam on a page, you can revert to the valid content by hitting the in the upper right part of the page and selecting the good revision. Editing pages is restricted to registered users -- you can create your own account. Your help in keeping our wiki free of trash will reduce the chances that we will lock down web pages.

Sponsors

The freedesktop.org servers are generously hosted by Portland State University. Intel, HP and Google have sponsored the servers themselves and Collabora are sponsoring sysadmin time.

Home (last edited 2011-11-09 16:55:32 by TollefFogHeen)

Immutable Page

DeleteCache (cached 2012-02-12 20:01:13)

Or try one of these actions: AttachFile, Despam, LikePages, Load, LocalSiteMap, PackagePages, Save, SlideShow, SpellCheck,

SubscribeUser, SyncPages

MoinMoin Powered Python Powered GPL licensed

Valid HTML 4.01
------
Google Search
Back to search results
Google Home

Formatted for mobile viewing by Google