[BlindMath] [program-l] TeX Hour: Thu 26 October: Share our Linux experience

[gmelconian619 at gmail.com]

Will this be recorded as well as will this be pacific  time or eastern standard time.  

 

From: program-l-bounce at freelists.org <program-l-bounce at freelists.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Fine
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:30 AM
To: accessibility at tug.org; Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>; program-l at freelists.org
Subject: [program-l] TeX Hour: Thu 26 October: Share our Linux experience

 

Hi

 

I'm in the middle of a self-inflicted course in Linux System Administration. More exactly, I'm installing Arch Linux on my PC, with a view to meeting my own quite particular personal needs. Right now I'm running Fedora, and I hope to be on Arch by the time of tomorrow's TeX Hour.

 

The topic for tomorrow's TeX Hour is sharing our Linux experience. All contributions are welcome, particularly about things I don't use, such as Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux. It being a TeX Hour, we might focus on

 

* technical documentation

* accessibility

* stability

* portability


TeX Hour: Thursday 26 October, 6:30 to 7:30pm BST
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09

 

By the way, a major motive for my switching to Arch is to get better support for Wayland, the emerging replacement to X-Windows, which is now almost 40 years old. Wayland goes back to 2008, and the new release of Debian for the Raspberry Pi now uses Wayland by default. So for the first time a whole new generation of geeks will grow up using not X but Wayland.

 

TeX users know that TeX excels at digital typography, particularly in STEM. TeX provides an admirable platform. I'm excited about Wayland because it provides a much improved platform for what I might call interactive or display digital typography.

 

Look forward to hosting tomorrow on Arch Linux

 

with kind regards

 

Jonathan

 

PS. Researching for this post I came across:

 

FREE: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-linux/

$300: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/linux-system-administration-essentials-lfs207/