[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Navigating the myriad technologies that comprise the desktop
(and palmtop) on open source systems is daunting to say the least,
for newcomers of all sorts, open source developers, developers in
companies using the technologies internally, and commercial ISV’s,
and even difficult to navigate for those immersed in open source
systems on a day to day basis.“This document attempts to give a sketch of the names and
relationships of these technologies and projects, and a glimpse
into their status and development. Some technologies have never
proved themselves, and/or have been rendered obsolete by later
development and are available primarily for legacy code. This
document attempts to clarify much of this natural evolution and
market selection. Ultimately, some technologies become so rare as
to enable their interment into the strata of software history, and
it can be important to know which technologies are in such a fossil
state, or stuck in the Labrea Tar Pits and possibly doomed to
extinction, if not yet dead…”