11.04 install fail

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Tony Pursell
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The reason why I suggested Unity 2D is that we will all have to get used
> to Unity.  AFAIK Ubuntu Classic, which is based on Gnome version 2, will
> not be available from version 11.10.  Only Unity desktops will be
> available.  Gnome 2 is now unsupported and replaced with Gnome 3 which
> has (as far as I know from comments by people like Mark Shuttleworth) a
> similar desktop to Unity.  Ubuntu have pre-empted Gnome 3 with the Unity
> desktop.  So Ubuntu had to do something to replace the old Gnome 2 shell
> and chose to create Unity.
>
> So it is worthwhile installing the Unity 2D just to have a look at it.
> You can install it from the Software Centre and it will be in the


AFAIK Ubuntu 11.10 will come with GNOME 3 Shell too.

My personal opinion is that GNOME 3 Shell is far superior to Unity, at
least for now.


Here are small informational videos about GNOME 3:

http://www.gnome3.org


You can also try GNOME 3 with a Live-CD here (I suggest the Fedora image):

http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html



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