[PLUG] TUESDAY: October PLUG Advanced Topics: Living Desktop Environment-Free

Jon Drews jon.drews at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 00:50:30 UTC 2014


Folks:

This sounds like a great presentation. Is there anyway there could be a
video of this for those of us who can't make it?
On Oct 20, 2014 10:06 AM, "Michael Dexter" <dexter at ambidexter.com> wrote:

> Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement
>
> Who: Leander Harding
> What: Living Desktop Environment-Free
> Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
> When: Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 at 7pm
> Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
> Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live/
>
>
> KDE, Unity, even XFCE, are massive, complex software environments that
> achieve simplicity of user experience through rigid adherence to a given
> paradigm - and once you can write a shell script, they do remarkably
> little for you. We'll discuss philosophy, tools, and practical advice
> for simpler, more reliable, and more powerful computing without a
> desktop environment, surveying everything from non-annoying network
> profile handling to the wide world of mouse-free window management and
> everything in between.
>
> Leander Harding is a developer at Cloud Four and a longtime Linux user.
> He's been running desktop environment-free since 2007.
>
> Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250467060
>
> Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. after the
> meeting.
>
> Rideshares Available
>
> PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/
> Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux
>
> PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its
> mailing lists or at its meetings.
>
>
> See you there!
>
> Michael Dexter
> PLUG Volunteer
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