<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body dir="ltr" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi David: Thank you for your help!! Mark David Fox wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:359a3c580811032007h5dd4f1d2h27b6a489b63e5ee4@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Mark <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:markfpyles@gmail.com"><markfpyles@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi everyone: I have a odd question. What is the difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu? I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to know if maybe I should change to Xubuntu? Thanks. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the xfce desktop installed instead of the gnome desktop, which is the default in ubuntu. That being said, you don't have to install xubuntu if you already have ubuntu, or another *ubuntu either, you can just install the relevant desktop package. If you want to experiment, you can do $ sudo aptitude install xfce4-desktop and try it out. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Mark </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>