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

[Richard Owlett]

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