Canonical Ubuntu splits from Gnome over design issues

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 06:57 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

> Because Canonical was already developing Unity for netbooks for OEM
> (original equipment manufacturer) customers, "We went ahead and did the
> engineering" for a general desktop interface for the next release,
> Shuttleworth said. "Essentially, it is a very different product from the
> Gnome shell, and has a very different way of organizing things," he said.
>

Wonderful. Here's to the complete removal of all the crap from GNOME 
such as Mono too. Thanks Basil for the post.