<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Roderick Aldridge <<a href="mailto:rod-aldridge@xnet.co.nz" target="_blank">rod-aldridge@xnet.co.nz</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 08/06/12 04:59, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:25 AM, TOM TOM<<a href="mailto:thomasthoma@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomasthoma@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">kogorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I've got a conglomeration of software on my Ubuntu system. I hope to strip down and go Xubuntu at 12.04.1. I need some help with alternatives. I've been using K3B to burn CDs and DVDs, mostly release disks and other software, a few backups. I use Ktorrent. I use Kalarm. I use gparted and Gimp. Does the 'g' mean Gnome, GNU or what? What else is there? I use synaptic, and don't know if it's in Xubuntu. </blockquote></blockquote> [snip] <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> Anything can be installed in Xubuntu. That said: </blockquote> Yes. That's what I wound up doing to Ubuntu, and don't want to repeat. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> K3b is irreplaceable, so you'd have most of the KDE dependencies anyways, thus Ktorrent and Kalarm wouldn't hurt so much. </blockquote> Almost makes me want to fork K3b. How much of KDE does it actually need, I wonder. </blockquote></div></div> Brasero comes with Xubuntu. It does everything that K3B does except one-pass copying music CDs. I installed it to do this and it brought in 26MB of KDE dependencies. Roderick Aldridge<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Personally I don't mind the dependencies, since K3B to me is the most trustworthy one of them all.