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Ubuntu UNITY is GNOME-MORE: 'One Linux' dream of phone, slab, desktop UI axed

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Shuttleworth has shocked and surprised the open source community, even those who were critics of the Unity effort that was started six years ago. "I'm writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell," he wrote on the official Ubuntu blog Wednesday. "We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS."

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seatex ·
Well, the good news is the iceberg knocked Captain Shuttleworth's crack pipe overboard. The bad news is it took 6 years to happen.

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