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Ubuntu uses GNOME Shell by default since 17.10, October 2017, after Canonical ceased development of Unity. [36] It has been available for installation in the repositories since version 11.10. [ 37 ] An alternative flavor, Ubuntu GNOME , was released alongside Ubuntu 12.10, [ 38 ] and gained official flavor status by Ubuntu 13.04.
Ubuntu GNOME (formerly Ubuntu GNOME Remix) is a discontinued Linux distribution, distributed as free and open-source software. It used a pure GNOME 3 desktop environment with GNOME Shell, rather than the Unity graphical shell. Starting with version 13.04 it became an official "flavour" of the Ubuntu operating system. [1] [2]
Canonical, the company developing Ubuntu, ceased working with the GNOME Shell developers during the GNOME 3 planning phases [83] [84] [85] and released their own desktop environment, Unity, replacing GNOME as the default desktop shell in Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" released in April 2011. [86]
Unity is a graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment originally developed by Canonical Ltd. for its Ubuntu operating system.It debuted in 2010 in the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10 and was used until Ubuntu 17.10.
This is the first release of Ubuntu to use the GNOME Shell interface, and the first release to replace X11 with the Wayland display server. [ 213 ] [ 214 ] [ 215 ] In May 2017, Ken VanDine, a Canonical Software Engineer on the Ubuntu desktop team tasked with the switch to GNOME, confirmed that the intention is to ship the most current version ...
Ubuntu Unity is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, using the Unity interface in place of Ubuntu's GNOME Shell. The first release was 20.04 LTS on 7 May 2020. Prior to the initial release it had the working names of Unubuntu and Ubuntu Unity Remix. [1] [2]
Ubuntu GNOME: Formerly an official Ubuntu variant, [61] but since the main Ubuntu 17.10, which uses GNOME Shell as its default desktop and GDM as its display manager, this distro has been merged into mainline releases. [62] Ubuntu JeOS "Just Enough OS" – was described as "an efficient variant [...] configured specifically for virtual ...
The first adoption of GNOME 3 in a major Linux distribution was version 15 of Fedora Linux. [17] Canonical, who had stopped contributing to the GNOME 3 codebase, chose to break from bundling a GNOME Shell for Ubuntu, [15] and instead released its Unity shell. Canonical eventually began using a customized version of the GNOME Shell in 2017, when ...