Author: philbull
Date: Thu Aug 16 10:21:14 2007
New Revision: 4247
Modified:
trunk/ubuntu/about-ubuntu/C/about-ubuntu.xml
Log:
Remove info on installing other DEs (it's being moved), add authors files
Modified: trunk/ubuntu/about-ubuntu/C/about-ubuntu.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/ubuntu/about-ubuntu/C/about-ubuntu.xml (original)
+++ trunk/ubuntu/about-ubuntu/C/about-ubuntu.xml Thu Aug 16 10:21:14 2007
@@ -145,26 +145,16 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 id="ubuntu-desktop" status="review">
<title>The Desktop</title>
- <para>The desktop is what you see after you log in to
your computer and what you use to manage and run applications.
- The default desktop environment for Ubuntu is <ulink
- url="&gnome;">GNOME</ulink>, a leading UNIX and
- Linux desktop suite and development platform.</para>
- <para>As well as GNOME, Ubuntu also supports two other
desktop suites:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink
url="&kubuntu-main;">Kubuntu</ulink> is a version of Ubuntu which uses the
<ulink url="&kde;">KDE</ulink> desktop. To get a working installation of
Kubuntu and KDE, install the <application>kubuntu-desktop</application>
package.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink
url="&xubuntu-main;">Xubuntu</ulink> is a version of Ubuntu which uses the
<ulink url="&xfce;">Xfce</ulink> desktop. To get a working installation of
Xubuntu and Xfce, install the <application>xubuntu-desktop</application>
package.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>Once an alternative desktop package is installed,
you
- can choose to use either a GNOME, KDE or Xfce desktop
environment.
- At the log-in screen, press
<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Options</guimenuitem>
- <guimenuitem>Select
Session...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, choose
- which desktop you would like to use and press
<guibutton>Change Session</guibutton>.
- Then, enter your username and password as normal in
order to use
- the desktop you chose.</para>
+ <para>The desktop is what you see after you log in to
your computer and what
+ you use to manage and run applications. The default
desktop environment for
+ Ubuntu is <ulink url="&gnome;">GNOME</ulink>, a leading
UNIX and Linux
+ desktop suite and development platform.</para>
+ <para>You can optionally install the <ulink
url="&kde;">KDE</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="&xfce;">Xfce</ulink> desktop environments,
which have their own
+ distinctive look and feel. KDE and Xfce are made
available in Ubuntu by the
+ <ulink url="&kubuntu-main;">Kubuntu</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="&xubuntu-main;">Xubuntu</ulink> projects
respectively. You can
+ even install a KDE-only or Xfce-only version of Ubuntu
if you wish.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="version-numbers" status="complete">
<title>Version and Release Numbers</title>
@@ -172,7 +162,8 @@
date we release a version of the distribution. The
version number comes from the year and month of the
release rather than reflecting the actual version of
the
- software. Our first release (Warty Warthog) was in
+ software.</para>
+ <para>Our first release (Warty Warthog) was in
October 2004 so its version was 4.10. This version
(&distro-version;) was
released in &distro-release-date; so its version
number is &distro-rev;.
</para>
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