Linux desktop developers find commonality

More than two dozen desktop Linux distributors met recently to find common ground, as urged by kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds' employer, the Open Source Development Labs. The result was Project Portland, which will be a group of standardized Linux software interfaces. That way developers don't have to worry about which front-end shell is used with their programs. Portland will hopefully be ready in late 2006, officials said.

For more on the summit meeting:
- check out this eWeek article

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