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Thread ID: 113575 2010-10-26 08:40:00 Ubuntu saying goodbye to Gnome ? decibel (11645) Press F1
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1147836 2010-10-26 08:40:00 "...Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that in the next release of the popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu 11.04, Unity would become the default desktop interface...."

blogs.computerworld.com
decibel (11645)
1147837 2010-10-26 08:49:00 Ah, not quite...
It's only the Metacity window manager that Unity replaces.
fred_fish (15241)
1147838 2010-10-26 09:42:00 Still, it's an interesting move either way :D Chilling_Silence (9)
1147839 2010-10-26 11:38:00 Indeed, gnome-shell seems to be not the way they want to go.
There will still be a whole-lotta-gnome there for some time yet though.


... surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers ... when he announced...

Sounds less community, more corporate with every release.
fred_fish (15241)
1147840 2010-10-26 18:15:00 It's both.

When you're the one who owns a company that's footing the support / development bill, you get a little bit of leeway to do what you want ;)
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