Unity 8 and Snaps Are the Future of the Ubuntu Desktop, After Ubuntu 16.10

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, May 5, 2016, is the last day of the Ubuntu Online Summit 2016, and we’ve just attended a very exciting session where the Ubuntu developers have discussed the future of the Ubuntu Desktop after Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).

You can watch the entire session below if you don’t want to read the next paragraphs, but as usual, we’ll try to detail and explain a few things for you so that you know now what to expect from future versions of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, on the desktop, of course.

As the headline says, the future of the Ubuntu Desktop is Snaps (Snappy) and Unity 8 with Mir, at least according to Canonical’s Will Cooke, Ubuntu Desktop Manager. Work has already begun on pushing these new and modern technologies to the Ubuntu Desktop, as Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has just received support for <a target="_blank"… (read more)

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