Assembly language programming in unix environment

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:17 -0500, Kipton Moravec wrote:

> An example is the difference between Ubuntu and Xubuntu. Xubuntu was
> supposed to be a lighter weight version of Ubuntu, for older machines.
> It used X windows instead of Gnome. Turns out Xubuntu takes more RAM
> than Ubuntu. Probably because there are more people working on Ubuntu to
> make it more efficient. And not so many people are working on Xubuntu,
> so they worry about just getting something to work and code reuse.  

Both XUbuntu and Ubuntu use the X Window System.  Please note it is
singular and not plural.  The OS is the same.  The only major difference
is the window manager which sits on top of X which in turn sits as an
application on top of the OS. Ubuntu is Gnome and XUbuntu is Xfce.  You
can switch between the two if you want.  Xfce is a lighter weight window
manager than Gnome.
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