[Ubuntu-PH] Difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu

Wed Oct 26 00:47:09 UTC 2005

On 10/26/05, RICAFORTE, Romeo V. <RVRICAFORTE at pldt.com.ph> wrote:
> Hello everybody!  I'm a newbie and can somebody please explain the
> difference between ubuntu and kubuntu?

Hi Ronnie,

Kubuntu is generally understood as a version of Ubuntu that uses the K
desktop environment (KDE) as default, instead of vanilla Ubuntu's
GNOME desktop.  Kubuntu IIRC ships a lot more Qt-based applications,
since KDE uses the Qt toolkit, unlike GNOME which uses GTK 2.

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