Ubuntu versus KUbuntu

[Steve Haines]

Keith Powell wrote:

>On Friday 08 Apr 2005 20:30, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>>On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:26:39PM +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
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>>>Is there any advantage in running KUbuntu rather than installing KDE3.4
>>>on Ubuntu?
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>>>At the moment, I am enjoying using Gnome rather than KDE, but I was just
>>>wondering.
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>>That will give you a system with both KDE and GNOME, whereas Kubuntu will
>>give you a system with only KDE.
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>Thanks for your reply.
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>I asked the question, because I wondered if the "stand alone" KUbuntu was very 
>much different from the KDE I would get if I just used Synaptic to add the 
>KDE packages on to my Ubuntu installation.
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>Keith
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I did what you are thinking about, with good results. Then I added xfce, 
and Ubuntu reconfigured the login screen (still using gdm) to let me 
choose between Gnome, KDE, and XFCE, de pending on my mood. Neat.