Dirk Hohndel

XFree86 - about People and Technology

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Every Open Source project revolves around two main centers: The people doing it, and the technology that it creates. This talk tries to combine both by telling about the history of XFree86 and the people behind the project, and about the current state of the technology and the challenges that it faces. So a good part of this talk will be interesting to everyone interested in Linux or Open Source. And some of it will require a bit of understanding what an X server is all about.

About Dirk Hohndel Dirk Hohndel is Chief Technology Officer of SuSE Linux AG. He also serves as Vice President of The XFree86 Project, Inc., a non-profit corporation that provides an Open Source implementation of the X Window System on PC Unix systems like Linux. Prior to his current position at SuSE, Dirk was Unix Architect at Deutsche Bank AG, before that, he was Senior Software Engineer for AIB Software Corporation (which was then acquired by PLATINUM technology). Dirk holds a Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is married and lives near Frankfurt, Germany.