[Nottingham] [Talk] Thursday 01/10/2009 What can Linux do for You?

[Martin]

Folks,
> 
> What can Linux do for You?
> 

I think we had good multi-threaded and often parallised evening :-)

Of note there was Tom demonstrating on his (ancient) netbook, various 
commandline apps that *don't use X* as a display manager and instead 
directly take over the display for themselves to show their graphics. 
Very lean and mean!! He also showed off the EvilWM window manager and 
complained that it was only just frugal enough for his liking!


 From the talk and discussion, it looks like most people do:

Email;
Web surfing;
Play music and other media;
Arrange photo albums;
Write text documents;
And then we get into the obscure stuff...

And we all have the freedom to customise things to our hearts content.

The only comment of problems was for if there is some all-encompassing 
easy-to-use client for uploading images and web pages to the various 
sites/hosts.

Myself for that, I just jump onto the command-line and use one of the 
many good old fashioned (s)ftp clients. For using a GUI, then there is 
Filezilla and the good old Konqueror.

Meanwhile... Has Webdav taken off yet?...


And on this occasion, to my taste the beer was rather off :-(

I'm very open to suggestions/recommendations of other venues in the city 
centre. We might have a fall-back of a community centre north of the 
city centre but I think that is a little far away for those that come in 
on the train or use the Broadmarsh bus station.

We've always got a "fallback" option of just meeting up in such as the 
Roebuck on St James' St.

Anyone any ideas?

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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