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While HAL does stand for Hardware Abstraction Layer in general, the page you linked is for a specific piece of software that was used by previous versions of KD
by Noughmad 10y ago
While HAL does stand for Hardware Abstraction Layer in general, the page you linked is for a specific piece of software that was used by previous versions of KDE and Gnome for this purpose.
- mVChr 10y agoTrue, good clarification. I had visited the more general page also[1] but thought the other was more relevant to the email thread. And definitely much better than my only other inkling for what that meant in relation to computer systems.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000