[xubuntu-users] Are there any Xubuntu users here?

[Drmgiver]

I'm going with the option that reads "He's trolling".  Never wrestle 
with a pig.  You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

Justin

On 05/03/2011 11:00 AM, ross smith wrote:
>
>>     I would expect find apps that fit the spirit of the derivative.
>
>     I haven't encountered that phrase before: "the spirit of the
>     derivative".
>     What would you say is "the spirit" of Ubuntu?  Hardly lightweight,
>     being a full blown Gnome distribution.  Unity is not lightweight
>     either.
>
> I never said that ubuntu was lightweight or that they intended their 
> distribution to be lightweight.
>
>>      Xubuntu, and Xfce4 are both based around the idea of a
>>     lightweight but fully featured desktop.
>
>     It certainly seems so.  But certainly not in  "the spirit of"
>     Ubuntu.  Why did they bother to call it Xubuntu and yet leave out
>     everything remotely like Ubuntu?
>
> xubuntu (and all of the other derivatives for that matter)  has no 
> impetus to follow along with whatever ubuntu is doing.   That's the 
> whole point of a derivative distribution; to do something different 
> with the operating system.   What's the point in rolling a different 
> distro based on the sources of ubuntu if you're not going to change 
> anything?
>
>>      The apps I would expect to be included with xubuntu are lighter
>>     alternatives to those in ubuntu.
>
>     I would certainly expect "lighter alternatives" if Xfce sat on top
>     of a CLI based derivative, but I repeat:  Why did they bother to
>     call it Xubuntu and yet leave out everything remotely like Ubuntu?
>
>
> Justin said it best:
> One more time:  BECAUSE IT ISN'T UBUNTU!!!
>
> "If Xfce sat on top of a CLI based derivative"
>
> Either you really don't know how linux works at all (in which case I'd 
> do some reading before ranting on a mailing list...) or you're just 
> trolling.
>
> -Ross

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