Hello Everyone, I am looking forward to meeting you tomorrow. To know how many people are coming, it would be great if you sign up at meetup for the meeting http://linux.meetup.com/5/calendar/9340795/
All the best, Mario On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Harish Pillay <[email protected]> wrote: > On behalf of LUGS I am pleased to announce that we have organized > a talk on the Linux window manager called LXDE this coming Thursday > December 18 2008. > > Who: Mario Behling, President of the LXDE Foundation > When: Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 at 7pm. Pizzas will be served. > Where: Red Hat Asia Pacific conference room > 8 Shenton Way, #10-00, Singapore 068811 > (this is the building formerly known as Temasek Tower > and is located above the Tanjong Pagar MRT station) > > Short Info: > Mario will present LXDE, the faster, easier to use and more energy > efficient desktop environment started 2005 by Taiwanese developer > Hong Yen Jee. ¨I have two netbooks with me and will show you the > difference in speed and ease of usability of LXDE by comparing to > other currently pre-installed Linux systems on netbooks.¨ Mario will > talk about the current development plans, the global community and > opportunities for companies with LXDE. Join the LXDE presentation > and learn how you can become a member of this international vibrant > free and open source project from Asia. > > What: > LXDE, "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment", is an extremely faster, > performing and energy saving desktop environment maintained by an > international community of developers. It comes with a beautiful > interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and > additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and > less RAM. It is especially designed for computers with low hardware > specifications like netbooks, mobile internet devices (MIDs) or older > computers. LXDE can be installed with distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu > or Debian. Applications running on these systems will run with LXDE. > The source code of LXDE is licensed partly under the terms of the > General Public License and partly under the LGPL. > > More information > http://lxde.org > IRC: www.oftc.net #lxde >
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