Hi everyone:





I have a odd question.
What is the difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu? I am running Ubuntu
8.04 and wanted to know if maybe I should change to Xubuntu? Thanks.









Mark





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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Mark <markfpyles@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I have a odd question. What is the difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu? I
> am running Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to know if maybe I should change to
> Xubuntu? Thanks.

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the xfce desktop installed instead of the gnome
desktop, which is the default in ubuntu.

That being said, you don't have to install xubuntu if you already have
ubuntu, or another *ubuntu either, you can just install the relevant
desktop package. If you want to experiment, you can do

$ sudo aptitude install xfce4-desktop

and try it out.

> Mark

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Mark wrote:
> I have a odd question. What is the difference between Xubuntu and
> Ubuntu? I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to know if maybe I should
> change to Xubuntu? Thanks.

Ubuntu uses GNome as it's desktop environment. XUbuntu uses XFCE as it's
desktop environment but for some reason can't resist importing 1/2 of GNome
and messing both up in the process.

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Hi Steve:





Thank you. Do most
people use Thunderbird for their email programs? Thanks.







Steve Lamb wrote:


Mark wrote:


I have a odd question. What is the difference between Xubuntu and
Ubuntu? I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to know if maybe I should
change to Xubuntu? Thanks.



Ubuntu uses GNome as it's desktop environment. XUbuntu uses XFCE as it's
desktop environment but for some reason can't resist importing 1/2 of GNome
and messing both up in the process.







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Hi David:





Thank you for your
help!!





Mark







David Fox wrote:


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Mark <markfpyles@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi everyone:

I have a odd question. What is the difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu? I
am running Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to know if maybe I should change to
Xubuntu? Thanks.



Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the xfce desktop installed instead of the gnome
desktop, which is the default in ubuntu.

That being said, you don't have to install xubuntu if you already have
ubuntu, or another *ubuntu either, you can just install the relevant
desktop package. If you want to experiment, you can do

$ sudo aptitude install xfce4-desktop

and try it out.



Mark









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Mark wrote:
> Hi Steve:
>
>
> Thank you. Do most people use Thunderbird for their email programs?
> Thanks.

I do. On both *nix and on Win2K. I can't speak for others but I'm very
happy with it.
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Hi Steven:





Thank you for your
input. Thunderbird is a nice program.





Mark







Steven Davies-Morris
wrote:


Mark wrote:


Hi Steve:


Thank you. Do most people use Thunderbird for their email programs?
Thanks.



I do. On both *nix and on Win2K. I can't speak for others but I'm very
happy with it.






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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>> I have a odd question. What is the difference between Xubuntu and
>> Ubuntu? I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to know if maybe I should
>> change to Xubuntu? Thanks.
>
> Ubuntu uses GNome as it's desktop environment. XUbuntu uses XFCE as it's
> desktop environment but for some reason can't resist importing 1/2 of GNome
> and messing both up in the process.
>

You forgot to add that XCFE is a lightweight desktop environment for
slower machines with less RAM. XFCE looks and acts like Gnome because
its built from Gnome's source code.

Believe it or not, but back in the day Gnome looked and functioned
more like KDE than it does today. Gnome today is more like the menu
bar in Mac OS X minus the dock.

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch@gmail.com> wrote:
> XFCE looks and acts like Gnome because its built from Gnome's source code.
They are both based upon GTK+, but XFCE is definately not build from
GNOME's source code.
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Michael Haney wrote:
> You forgot to add that XCFE is a lightweight desktop environment for
> slower machines with less RAM. XFCE looks and acts like Gnome because
> its built from Gnome's source code.

No, it's not.

> Believe it or not, but back in the day Gnome looked and functioned
> more like KDE than it does today. Gnome today is more like the menu
> bar in Mac OS X minus the dock.

No, it didn't.

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