[gnome-devel-docs/dx-hackfest] platform-overview: Fill in the Avahi page

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico src gnome org>]

commit 4e449d9532b478215fd8bf36db549660833332c9
Author: Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>
Date:   Thu Jan 31 18:55:47 2013 +0100

    platform-overview: Fill in the Avahi page
    
    Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>

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diff --git a/platform-overview/C/avahi.page b/platform-overview/C/avahi.page
index 5a1595e..63b1680 100644
--- a/platform-overview/C/avahi.page
+++ b/platform-overview/C/avahi.page
@@ -8,4 +8,35 @@
 
 <title>Avahi</title>
 
+  <p>
+    Avahi implements <link xref="http://www.zeroconf.org/";>Zeroconf</link>
+    Networking.  It allows programs to discover services like printers on local
+    networks without prior configuration.  It also allows applications to set
+    up services that are reachable through the local network without
+    configuration; for example, a chat program that "finds" other chat users in
+    a LAN without having to set up a central chat server first.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+    Avahi is an implementation of the <link xref="http://www.dns-sd.org/";>DNS Service
+      Discovery</link> and <link xref="http://www.multicastdns.org/";>Multicast DNS</link>
+    specifications, which are part of <link xref="http://www.zeroconf.org/";>Zeroconf</link>
+    Networking.
+  </p>
+
+  <p>
+    Various programs in GNOME use Avahi to discover services.  Gnome-user-share
+    (a module for the Nautilus file manager) lets users of a local network to
+    share files with each other, and it finds computers that are sharing files
+    via Avahi.  Vino, a remote-desktop viewer, uses Avahi to find remote
+    desktop servers.  <link xref="pulseaudio">PulseAudio</link>, GNOME's
+    low-level audio API, uses Avahi to make it possible to route sound through
+    local networks.
+  </p>
+
+  <list style="compact">
+    <item><p><link href="http://avahi.org/wiki/ProgrammingDocs";>Avahi reference documentation</link></p></item>
+  </list>
+
+
 </page>