Ubuntu to use its netbook Unity interface in 11.04, not GNOME 3

[Basil Chupin]

On 26/10/2010 17:13, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 26/10/2010 14:37, Michael Haney wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Liam Proven<lproven at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Ooh, this is quite big. Just found a mention of it, oddly, in a
>>> Wikipedia article, not where I expected to find tech news...
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Shell
>>>
>>> More info:
>>> http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ubuntu-moves-away-gnome
>>>
>>> Confirmation:
>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-specialized-unity-form-factor
>>>
>>> So apparently the SABDFL doesn't like the look of GNOME 3. Well, that
>>> seems fair enough to me - I've watched the videos and so on and I
>>> don't either.
>>>
>>> But going with the new and not-all-that-well-tried-yet Unity netbook
>>> interface on the desktop? My, that's courageous. I don't know what
>>> it's like - it won't run on my Thinkpad X31. Mutter constantly dies&
>>> forces a desktop reload, every 5sec or so, in a loop. It does this on
>>> a mouseover of the "dock", without even a click.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Many users may stick with Ubuntu despite the change, but others may
>> switch to one of the other derivatives like Xubuntu which has the feel
>> of Gnome 2 (though its really XFCE).  Or, you'll see another
>> derivative surface ... Gubuntu, which has the old traditional Gnome
>> desktop without Gnome Shell.  It could happen, nothing says it can't.
>>
>> Either that, it'll drive more and more users over to Kubuntu
>>      
> I think it all has to do with "open core" which Shuttleworth is pushing
> for to make Canonical profitable.
>
> Someone already either here or in Ubuntu posted references to a 3
> articles on this subject; I thought that I had bookmarked them but it
> doesn't appear that I did. However, I remember this one (which I got by
> doing a search):
>
> http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/17/shuttleworth-admits-it.html
>
> BC
>    
  I found the references, they were posted in the kubuntu list:

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Guest-commentary-Open-Core-is-ov

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/17/shuttleworth-admits-it.html

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/assigning-copyright

BC

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