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

[Leander S. Harding]

I've just posted the slides for tonight's talk on my website at
http://lsh.io/plugtalk for those who can't make it or want to follow
along on their own machines.

-Leander

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Leander S. Harding <lsh at lsh.io> wrote:
> 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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