Canonical to Make GNOME Default Session in Ubuntu 17.10, Likely Use Wayland

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

As most of you are aware, Canonical decided to no longer develop its Unity user interface for the main flavor of Ubuntu Linux and, instead, switch to the well-known GNOME desktop environment starting with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

But it looks like work on this massive switch from Unity to GNOME will start soon, as part of the development cycle of the next release of the Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 17.10, which hits the streets sometime in October 2017. On April 18, the Ubuntu desktop team held a first meeting to discuss the move to GNOME.

You can see the entire IRC log here if you’re all that curious about what was discussed during the meeting, but the most interest… (read more)

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