Unity: Nothing can go wrong!

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Mon Apr 18 14:04:47 UTC 2011


On 04/17/2011 07:27 AM, Liam Proven wrote:

[snip]
>> I appologize.....I said "3" but it isn't....current Gnome. I can't find any
>> > option for
>> > a Unity startup....no options at all. The image is the 64-bit iso from the
>> > Ubuntu site. The
>> > file name is: ubuntu-11.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso
> It doesn't and you didn't get GNOME 3. You got GNOME 2.
>
> Unity requires 3D compositing. They are working on a separate 2D
> version but it's not ready yet.
>
> The way it works is meant to be this:
>
>  - if you have hardware 3D, you get Unity;
>  - if you don't, you get GNOME 2.

No, I don't think that's correct. The disk doesn't have the new nVidia
drivers so you can't get Unity.

Fred

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