Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS Officially Released with GNOME 3.18, Snappy Support

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Ubuntu GNOME team has announced today, April 21, 2016, the official release of the Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), as part of the launch of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system.

It’s been three years since the promising Ubuntu GNOME distribution was started, which later become an official Ubuntu flavor due to the demand from the community to use a pure GNOME desktop environment on top of a solid Ubuntu Linux base, which was not technically possible because of dependency conflicts with the Unity interface.

Unfortunately, we would have loved this distro more if it could ship with the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment in time, but being able to upgrade at a later time is also a good thing. Therefore, Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS launches today with the GNOME 3.18 desktop environme… (read more)

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