Leander S. Harding wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Paul Mullen <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
