Editing Avahi (software) (section)

==History==
Avahi was developed by [[Lennart Poettering]] and Trent Lloyd. It is the result of a merger in 2005 of Poettering's original mDNS/DNS-SD implementation called "FlexMDNS", and Lloyd's original code called "Avahi". While most of today's code originates from the former project, the name of the latter was used for the joint project. Development on "FlexMDNS" started in late 2004, and work on the original "Avahi" began in early 2004.

Avahi was originally developed under the [[freedesktop.org]] umbrella, but has now become a separate project. Avahi, however, makes use of freedesktop.org's [[D-Bus]] IPC layer.

The name ''Avahi'' is the [[Malagasy language|Malagasy]] native name and scientific Latin name of a genus of [[woolly lemur]], a family of [[primate]]s indigenous to [[Madagascar]]. Trent Lloyd found the name and liked it, and it stuck. The logo reflects this.<ref>{{cite video
 | title       = Using Avahi The "Right Way"
 | date        = 2007
 | location    = linux.conf.au
 | url         = http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/monday/monday_1150_GNOME.ogg
 | format      = ogg
 | medium      = Presentation
 | people      = Trent Lloyd, [[Lennart Poettering]]
}}</ref>