[NCLUG] Call for Participation: Next NCLUG meeting: Your desktop habits.

[Chad Perrin]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:53:28PM -0600, DJ Eshelman wrote:
> 
> So, I'd be curious as well to hear what people think of when they hear 
> 'Desktop':
> 
> Do you mean desktop computer (ie, PC/Mac) for personal daily use?
> Do you mean server desktop interface (using X instead of SSH, for example)?
> Do you mean terminal sessions?
> Do you mean Virtual Desktops from Xen or VMWare?
> Or, now that Wine is finally actually released (1.0), do you mean you 
> use a Linux Desktop and run Windows apps that way?

In terms of what's being presented, I think of a preferred general
working environment for both professional and leisure pursuits -- the
environment in which I run my browser, my text editors, et cetera.  I
don't tend to think of a "server desktop interface", in part because
(other than application servers) I don't tend to install X on a server at
all.  I think of terminal sessions as being part of the overall "desktop"
because I tend to have several running at any given time.

I think of Xen and VMWare as "virtual machines", not "virtual desktops".
In fact -- and I probably have this in common with most users of open
source Unix-like OSes -- I think of "virtual desktops" as something else
entirely:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

Wine is just something I may or may not use within the context of my
"desktop" environment, if I have need of running some MS Windows based
application that won't run on my machine any other way (such as World of
Warcraft).

I guess that means that I refer to your first listed option, a "desktop
computer", where that also includes laptops (what some people confusingly
call "notebooks", even though people like me often use actual notebooks
as well as laptops).


> 
> However, odds are good that I may not be able to be there- can someone 
> video and then YouTube (or whatever method you like, share the video) of 
> the meeting just in case I can't be there?

I'm afraid I won't be recording any video of the event, but maybe someone
else has a video camera.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Albert Camus: "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
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