When Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu announced that the next version of the popular Linux, Ubuntu 11.04, would use Unity, instead of GNOME as its default desktop interface he shocked the Linux ...

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 ...

The upcoming new Unity shell design for the next release of Canonical’s Ubuntu 11.04 could change the face of the popular Linux desktop as we know it. Canonical creator Mark Shuttleworth is pushing ...

With the possible exception of GNOME 3, few recent innovations in the Linux world have proven as controversial as the Unity desktop included in Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal.” Canonical founder Mark ...

On May 10, 2010, Mark Shuttleworth stood in front of developers, programmers and fans of Ubuntu Linux at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in La Hulpe, Belgium and announced that Natty Narwhal, Ubuntu 11.04 ...

During a keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Belgium, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth unveiled a new lightweight user interface shell called Unity. The new shell is designed to use screen space ...

Did Ubuntu dump Unity for money? Canonical dumped GNOME for its own Unity desktop years ago, but now the company has reversed itself and will release Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME instead of Unity. So why ...

But an initial look at an Alpha version of the forthcoming Linux distro shows a dispiriting number of technical issues with its vaunted new "Unity" interface that need to be smoothed over before it ...

Hey, Ubuntu users: If you haven’t heard yet, Canonical killed off any hopes of releasing Unity 8 with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS next year. Instead, Ubuntu will release 18.04 with the GNOME desktop. While some ...

Last week, Canonical released the latest version of its desktop Linux operating system, Ubuntu. Affectionately nicknamed "Natty Narwhal," Ubuntu 11.04 is notable not just for being the most recent ...

Whether you've installed Ubuntu on an older computer or you're rocking a low-powered netbook with Ubuntu installed, Ubuntu's Unity interface can be a little sluggish. Unity 2D is a low-resource ...

ORLANDO, FLA.–As Debian is to Ubuntu, so GNOME is to Unity. What do I mean by that? Well, once upon a time there was an operating system called Debian. It was, and is, a powerful version of Linux.