Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by mastar2323 » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 7:44 AM UTC

Joey Hess' minimal approach
joey.hess.usesthis.com

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by mazsa » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 8:28 AM UTC

Mmmm.... "What would be your dream setup? I dream of a ARM-based netbook with exceptionally good battery life, an E-ink display, and fully open and non-proprietary hardware. I've put off upgrading for years since this seems such an obvious thing for the market to produce, but the market is fascinated with locked-down tablets instead."

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by fmstephe » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 9:33 AM UTC

I love this setup. After the new ARM chromebook came out I got all excited and looked about for a way to dual boot a full OS on my old series 5. It turns out it's easy now (http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chrubuntu-1204-n...) There is a lot of pleasure in using such a small machine.

I am definitely looking forward to an e-ink laptop. As I get older my eyes grow more weary, but the e-ink display on my kindle is a joy to look at.

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by lucaspiller » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 10:02 AM UTC

"The only other active computer in the house is my home server and internet gateway; a Sheevaplug with a wireless dongle and a dialup modem."

Everything else maybe... but I could never go back to dialup!

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by adv0r » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 10:39 AM UTC

"I've used nothing else since 1996."

Wow, that's impressive but I'm not sure I'd be proud of not "using" any other Operating System than my favourite for 16 years.

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by jrajav » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 10:48 AM UTC

More on Hess' minimal lifestyle: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/

I could have sworn this was a submission at some point, but I can't find it.

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by zalew » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 10:56 AM UTC

> I use the XFCE desktop environment, with the Xmonad window manager.

I was just going to try that in my xfce, what a coincidence. In case anyone is interested, here's the instruction http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_XF...

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by gadders » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 10:58 AM UTC

Did I miss this in the article, but whereabouts does Joey actually live?

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by thejosh » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 10:59 AM UTC

jrajav wrote: post #6

More on Hess' minimal lifestyle: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/ I could have sworn this was a submission at some point, but I can't find it.

It might of been linked in the comments when his kickstarter was linked? That's when I remember reading it last.

Re: Joey Hess' minimal approach

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Post by zalew » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 11:02 AM UTC

adv0r wrote: post #5

"I've used nothing else since 1996." Wow, that's impressive but I'm not sure I'd be proud of not "using" any other Operating System than my favourite for 16 years.

why? Linux has such a vast ammount of possible usage patterns that his experience is probably much more eclectic than someone's who was hopping between windows and mac systems. (if we're talking about using OS on the desktop, I guess I don't have to start about his Debian knowledge on the server).