On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Damon Colbert wrote:
> I have a persistent Kubuntu 8.10 .. it took a week to work out some > problems. The main one being that with limited space on the thumb drive, > one cannot do a complete update of Kubuntu. Therefore many libraries are > missing and dependancy errors crop up during crystallography software > installation. You might want to look at Xubuntu. It uses the rather more lightweight xfce4 windowing system, which is nice and simple and basic and lightweight and clean and responsive. I prefer it over kde and gnome, even on hardware that can easily handle the overhead of all the extra features.