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

[Leander S. Harding]

Sort of? The slides are in HTML format and I've packed them with
links, so you'll be able to easily track down anything I talk about.

Also remember the stream!

-Leander

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> Leander S. Harding wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Paul Mullen <pm at nellump.net> wrote:
>>> I strongly suspect that the speaker is going to demonstrate life
>>> without a desktop environment, such as Gnome, KDE, etc., and not life
>>> without any graphical user interface, at all.
>>
>> Yes, you've nailed it (source: I'm the speaker tonight). Actually one
>> of the inspirations for this talk has been the number of times I've
>> had to explain the difference between no desktop and no X server - It
>> seems like the distinction isn't well known and so a lot of people are
>> using suboptimal tools for their use cases.
>>
>> To be perfectly direct: this talk is about using Linux effectively on
>> your workstation with X but without Gnome or the like. Some things may
>> be applicable to headless environments, but that's not the focus.
>>
>> Hope to see you all there!
>
> For those of us far past commuting distance, will you be posting
> a recommended reading list?  Hint Hint ;/
> TIA
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