The Ubuntu Unity 21.10 RC has now been released.
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Dev Says The Ubuntu Unity 21.10 RC has now been released. You can upgrade from an existing
21.10 beta installation to the release candidate. We are also slowly migrating our website and
blog to a new server.
Ubuntu Unity is a new flavor of Ubuntu that uses the Unity Desktop Environment.
What makes Ubuntu Unity Special The Ubuntu Unity project is leaded by Rudra
B. Saraswat who wants to give a new life to the desktop environment Unity7 on Ubuntu.
Currently at the stage of remix, Ubuntu Unity aims to become an official Ubuntu flavor in
the future. This is why this distribution doesn't contain any external PPAs
Ubuntu Unity is the perfect distribution to upgrade your Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus machine.
It offers a worry-free upgrade process, without any manual configuration required.
The display manager ligthdm has been replaced by GDM3. Other changes include a default Yaru
+ Papirus theme. Although, the classic Ambiance theme remains available and is just a few
clicks away inside the Unity Tweak Tool which comes preinstalled with the distribution.
UnityX, the secret weapon of Ubuntu Unity 21.10 Impish Indri
Since Canonical introduced it, I think there are few of us who have to talk about Unity
have done it for the worse. Ubuntu became heavy, and many of us looked for alternatives
until we found Ubuntu MATE. Some time later they returned to GNOME, and Unity stayed in
its version 7 and prepared Unity8. As it was difficult to pronounce and who was using it
the most was UBports, they changed the name to Lomiri, but the desktop version has been
reborn with Ubuntu Unity Remix and they are already working on UnityX.
Its developers refer to it as UnityX, and there are already a web open on it, but the
"X" is a 10. Its developers say it is designed for users who actually use the keyboard, but
it is not a window manager like i3 or Sway. Yes I have thought of Sway when looking at
the UnityX top bar, but what the Ubuntu Unity team is developing is more of a desktop.
The project has been underway for a few months, but at the moment What there is it's a second
desktop RC. They have enabled a repository, and it can also be installed from the DEB
package, available here!.
Taking into account that everything is very immature, and that right now I cannot test
what is available, I can say little for myself about UnityX, but it is known that it has
a sidebar as app drawer, new top panel, where we see the use of RAM and CPU, launcher sections
and open applications.
And another thing: this will be the desktop that Ubuntu Unity 21.10 will use Impish Indri,
which will keep the Remix label until it becomes an official flavor. When they launch the first
ISO we will be able to try all the benefits of UnityX, and I am not lacking.
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