I'd be grateful if you could put me right on these differences. If I
recall correctly having installed ubuntu, I could add xfce environment
two ways. First, from synaptic install xubuntu from meta packages
which added some of the XFCE apps like Abiword. Second, if one did a
search on XFCE and added all environment packages only. In this case I
had what i wanted which was the Ubuntu apps and a few KDE like Kate
editor. <<


However, i was using Edgy 6.10 and it could have been different from
Dapper or Feisty. <<

Well I am not certain about the former, I wish I had understood that
earlier myself. Could you explain that way?
It was the latter which I used and added the packages separately. (
900MHz /192 Mb runs very well)