## The Big freedesktop.org Interview on osnews.com "Today we are very happy to publish a very interesting Q&A with major freedesktop.org members: the founder Havoc Pennington (also of Debian, Gnome and Red Hat fame), Waldo Bastian (of SuSE & KDE fame), Keith Packard and Jim Gettys (of X/XFree86/fontconfig/w3c fame) and David Zeuthen, a new member who's taking over the ambitious HAL project. In the article, we discuss about general freedesktop.org goals, status and issues, the role of KDE/Qt in the road to interoperability with Gnome/GTK+, HAL (with new screenshots), the new X Server aiming to replace XFree86 and we even have an exclusive preliminary screenshot of a version of Mac OS X's Expos� window management feature for this new X Server! This is one article not to be missed if you are into Unix/Linux desktop!" [[http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5215|http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5215]] -- Main.[[HeinrichWendel|HeinrichWendel]] - 24 Nov 2003