[PLUG] xubuntu version ?

[Dick Steffens]

On 7/8/19 2:29 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> Xbuntu is a package "layer" on top of ubuntu. At it's core, it is literally
> indistinguishable from Ubuntu.
>
> The difference is in the choice of packages installed by default. There are
> a number of branding "meta packages" that are replaced when you create a
> distro based on an upstream core. IIRC, the most notable of these is
> "xubuntu-desktop". If you search the repos, you might notice a number of
> other similarly named packages:
> -kubuntu-desktop
> -ubuntu-desktop
> -lubuntu-desktop
> -fubuntu-desktop
>
>
> and so on. It's been a while since I last rebranded an ubuntu system, so
> feel free to correct me if naming conventions have changed. Regardless,
> these derivatives usually do nothing more than replace a small number of
> metapackages in ubuntu with their own.
> /etc/lsb-release is part of the distro core, and not something xubuntu will
> ever modify.

Okay. So I got xfce with xubuntu, and Ubuntu underneath. That's fine.

Thanks.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens