The What is Xubuntu? page

[Alex Lourie]

Hi there

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> Jim Campbell wrote:
> > Little Girl:
>
> > > Today someone in IRC asked what, exactly, Xubuntu is, mentioning
> > > that there's no definitive answer to be found on the Xubuntu page.
> > > Interestingly enough, when you go to the What is Xubuntu? page[1],
> > > there's no mention of XFCE. I would think that should be a
> > > highlight, shouldn't it?
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.xubuntu.org/about
>
> > I'd recommend checking out the Xubuntu information from the Xubuntu
> > documentation.  If you are using Xubuntu, you can find this
> > information in the following locations:
>
> > file:///usr/share/xubuntu-docs/about-xubuntu.html#xubuntu-intro
> > file:///usr/share/xubuntu-docs/about-ubuntu-name.html
> > file:///usr/share/xubuntu-docs/ubuntu-difference.html
>
> > I hope this helps.  Please let me know if you have any other
> > suggestions. Thanks!
>
> 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.

Alex.
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