Update on the talk location: The talk on Thursday 7 pm will be at the training rooms as the Red Hat offices. Same floor. Follow the signs.
Harish 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 -- Harish Pillay [email protected] gpg id: 746809E3 fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3 _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
