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When Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu announced that the next version of the popular Linux, Ubuntu 11.04, would use Unity, instead of GNOME as its default desktop interface he shocked the Linux ...

If you ever installed Ubuntu between versions 10 and 16, you surely had contact with the Unity desktop. As it was very different from other graphical shells, some have hated it. Others loved it, ...

And you can use this password to log in into this container. Can't work properly with gnome-terminal, use XTerm in place of it. Some components of Unity may not work properly with vncserver. This is ...

October’s release of Ubuntu 16.10 gave us our first real look at Unity 8 in its formative desktop guise. But as we noted in our hands-on article at that time, Unity 8 on the desktop, while somewhat ...

The upcoming new Unity shell design for the next release of Canonical’s Ubuntu 11.04 could change the face of the popular Linux desktop as we know it. Canonical creator Mark Shuttleworth is pushing ...

Ubuntu Unity Noble Numbat is out, and alongside it, a very much not long-term-supported new variant of the distro: Ubuntu Lomiri. Along with the official Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" release which ...

If you’re yet to be won over by Ubuntu’s switch to the GNOME desktop, there is a glint of hope on the horizon. The idea has already won the backing of a former Compiz/Unity desktop developer and ...

On May 10, 2010, Mark Shuttleworth stood in front of developers, programmers and fans of Ubuntu Linux at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in La Hulpe, Belgium and announced that Natty Narwhal, Ubuntu 11.04 ...

Hey, Ubuntu users: If you haven’t heard yet, Canonical killed off any hopes of releasing Unity 8 with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS next year. Instead, Ubuntu will release 18.04 with the GNOME desktop. While some ...