[tlug] Doing (software) violence unto my scratch monkey?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Shannon Jacobs writes:

 > meanwhile I feel like one possible solution for my problems with the
 > smallest box is to back it down to Xubuntu, which is supposed to be
 > quite a bit smaller but with almost the same functionality.
 > 
 > The question is "Can you get there from here?" In this case the "here"
 > is Dapper Drake Ubuntu with only 195 MB of free space to play with and
 > no CD drive. Does anyone have the experience to evaluate these
 > algorithms:

Any of the above should work.  There's a risk that you'll have to log
in, once, at the command line and type "apt-get install
xubuntu-desktop".  Surely that's acceptable?