The What is Xubuntu? page

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 20:39:15 UTC 2009


Hey there,

Alex Lourie wrote:

<SNIP>

> Little Girl wrote:

> > Thanks, but that's not what I was talking about. I'm sure there's
> > plenty of documentation within the operating system itself. The
> > reason for my email to the list was that a person in IRC who
> > doesn't use Linux was checking out the various derivatives of
> > Ubuntu. When that person went to the Xubuntu home page, they
> > didn't find any information that explained to them what the
> > difference is between Xubuntu and Ubuntu (or any of the other
> > derivatives). This seems like an oversight to me, so I thought
> > I'd let the documentation team know about it. (:

> It is a good point. The documentation should probably reflect the
> difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu. But I wouldn't say it in
> terms of XFCE or Gnome, as a person who never used Linux would not
> understand it. What I would do, is to highlight it as lighter
> version that can run on slower machines.

Sounds good to me. (:

-- 
Little Girl

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