From: dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > For the most part dos moves well between machines. > Did have trouble with cutemouse & jemmex. On > some machines they hang up.
So even DOS can be sensitive to hardware differences. :-p > What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. > What difference does the L make. The default GUI. In Windows, the GUI is part of the OS, and you boot into the standard Windows GUI. (You *can* boot to a command line, by diddling the registry to change Windows' idea of the default shell to CMD.EXE. You really don't *want* to.) In Linux, the GUI is a layered product, running on top of the OS. You can boot a Linux system to a command line and not *use* a GUI, though once again, you may not want to. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution built on top of Debian Linux. A major difference between Linux distributions is what GUI they use as the default. There are *many* available GUIs for Linux. The main Ubuntu distribution defaulted to a GUI developed by Ubuntu parent company Canonical, Ltd, called Unity. Unity was attempting to be a "one size fits all" GUI that would run on desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet, and smartphone. It was optimized for systems where the scarce resource was screen real estate, and you might access stuff through a touch screen. It was a good fit for a tablet, but fell down on a large monitor. Ubuntu has recently halted development on Unity and anointed Gnome as the standard GUI. Ubuntu is available in other flavors as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu. Kubuntu installs the KDE desktop as the default. Lubuntu installs the Lxde desktop. Xubuntu installs the XFCE desktop. You are not limited to the default. You can install others, and select which you wish to use at the Login screen. On the desktop, I have Unity, Gnome Classic, Enlightenment, Lxde and XFCE installed, and spend most time in Gnome. On the old netbook, I use Lubuntu, with Lxde, as it's a lightweight desktop intended for lower resource machines. (Back when, I ran a version of Red Hat Linux with a desktop designed to look as much as possible like Win95 to ease transition for folks coming from Windows.) ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (276:10/901) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user