The next version of desktop Ubuntu, Natty Narwhal, will ship with Canonical's Unity as the default skin instead of Gnome's user interface. Ubuntu 11.04 and future desktop releases will use Unity as ...

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, announced in a blogpost that the company will end its investment in Unity8. Instead, the company will shift its default Ubuntu desktop back to ...

I don't really have any preference Unity v Gnome, but I'm still baffled why TweakTools is never included by default across Gnome and the distros that use it. I don't think I've come across a single ...

Love Ubuntu Linux, but hate the Unity desktop environment that Canonical ships with it? There are a number of alternative versions of Ubuntu supported by a large development community including ...

ORLANDO, FLA. — 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 the next ...

In today's open source roundup: Should you use Unity or GNOME in Ubuntu? Plus: Linux blogs that are worth reading? And Linux Mint will offer systemd and upstart for ...

Up until a few years ago Ubuntu Linux used the GNOME desktop environment which provided the basic look and feel to the desktop and toolbar as well as a series of default apps. But starting with Ubuntu ...

We’ve known for some time that a “pure GNOME” version of Ubuntu Linux was in the works, and following last week’s release of Ubuntu 12.10 “Quantal Quetzal,” the first GNOME Remix of the software has ...