Descripción de 27c3: Desktop on the Linux (and BSD of course) (en):

Speaker: datenwolf you're doing it confused? weird? strange? wrong? Time to take a look back and under the hood of the current state of FOSS based desktops: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly -- Bloat, strange APIs, too much complexity. The first decade of the 21st century brought huge progress in the development of FOSS Desktop systems. Users can now choose from a broad range of environments, which all adhere to a coherent set of standards. Not to forget that FOSS did even pioneer some GUI technologies which were later adopted by other (read: non free) systems. There's one year left of this decade. Time to take a look back and under the hood of the current state of FOSS based desktops: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. * "Yo Dawg!" Stacking layers of redundancy. (Phonon - GStreamer - Pulseaudio) * Do you really need a full blown desktop session for a login screen? (GDM 2.21) * The graphics subsystem (X11) is network transparent and provides IPC. So let's build our own IPC system, that's not network transparent (DBus). * I think the login process is not complicated enough yet. (ConsoleKit) * Good ideas, poor implementation, abusive use. (PolicyKit) * Making things happen automatically doesn't "make things just work!". (Network Manager, ivman, HAL based mount) * Unified configuration madness. (gconf, XSettings) * Zombies: Some things are so bad, that even their original creators now abandon them (HAL). * What if special use cases require you, to get rid of some or multiple of the above? Admin's Nightmares! and last but not least * Possible security flaws in each of the above. And of course we'll also look at some of the pearls of strange API design in some of the above. For more information visit:http://bit.ly/27c3_information To download the video visit: http://bit.ly/27c3_videos