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Unity is a graphical shell 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 . Since 2017, its development was taken over by the Unity7 Maintainers (Unity7) [ 4 ] and UBports (Lomiri, formerly known as Unity8).
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.
Having shipped GNOME as its default graphical environment on Ubuntu since its debut, Canonical initially collaborated on development, but eventually became disillusioned, and halted their efforts. [15] This became the catalyst for development of their Unity shell to be used in place of the standard GNOME Shell. Canonical eventually began using ...
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. [39]
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]
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]
Ubuntu 11.04 used the Unity user interface instead of GNOME 2 as default. The move to Unity was controversial as some GNOME developers feared it would fracture the community and marginalize GNOME Shell. [105] [106] Ubuntu 11.04 employed Banshee as the default music player, replacing Rhythmbox.
The Unity shell became available on the Sabily 11.04 Badr DVD. Ubuntu Classic Desktop was the default desktop in Sabily (11.04), but Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. The full version of Sabily comes with out-of-the-box educational software, and codecs for most commonly used media formats.