[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal/ Hardware Abstraction Layer] consists of a set of small, generic software functions and routines aimed at helping the operating system recognize the host system hardware and make it available to programs and services. All this through a small, portable, hardware independent software API. HAL used to be part of the [http://www.freedesktop.org freedesktop] project and as such '''powered both GNOME and KDE 3'''. | [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal/ Hardware Abstraction Layer] consists of a set of small, generic software functions and routines aimed at helping the operating system recognize the host system hardware and make it available to programs and services. All this through a small, portable, hardware independent software API. HAL used to be part of the [http://www.freedesktop.org freedesktop] project and as such '''powered both GNOME and KDE 3'''. |