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Shawn O'Shea shawn at eth0.net
Wed Jan 4 17:18:36 EST 2012


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Ed lawson <elawson at grizzy.com> wrote:

>
> Thank you for that info.  I have been switching between Gnome 3 and the
> Classic Gnome options provided in SID and nice to know you can get
> there in Ubuntu too.  For me using "classic" is relatively
> painless, but Gnome 3 will take awhile. I am also trying Xcfe and it
> might end up final choice.  Xubuntu seems a little heavy, but otherwise
> OK for how I work.
>
>
Yeah, I'm not much for Unity, so I've been playing with other options. If
someone already has Ubuntu installed, you can get KDE of Xfce by apt-get
install'ing the kubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop respectively.

Although a little dated, I learned about these options from an Ubuntu wiki
page about adding a GUI to an Ubuntu Server install at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI

-Shawn
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