What to expect from ubuntu 16.10 without unity 8?
Table of contents:
- Ubuntu 16.10 using Unity 7 What news can we expect from this distro?
- Unity 8 is not yet available in Ubuntu 16.10
A few days ago we told you the news that Ubuntu 16.10, which is currently being developed, would not bring the new Unity 8 desktop environment, something that has disappointed many Linux users because the final version of this distro will not arrive until the month of October.
Unity is a widely used GNOME desktop environment and it was expected that its latest version would already be installed by default in Ubuntu 16.10, this will not be the case, but it will come inside the distro so that you can try it.
Ubuntu 16.10 using Unity 7 What news can we expect from this distro?
It is very unlikely that Unity 7 will receive news with Ubuntu 16.10 beyond security updates, but they also do not rule out that some new functionality can be introduced, especially in the hands of the user community.
The new applications that will come in the new version of Ubuntu will receive a lot of work through SRU updates. Expect to see, among other changes: improvements in the load and listing times of the articles, support for the installation of non-GUI software and libraries, support for the installation of fonts and multimedia codecs and the introduction to paid applications.
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Another notable innovation in Ubuntu 16.10 is the use of GNOME 3.20, which was recently released in March. This will require patching a select set of GNOME applications, including Totem, Eye of GNOME and Evince.
Unity 8 is not yet available in Ubuntu 16.10
Those responsible for Ubuntu have commented that this version will increase the size of the ISO image once again, which was already 1.4GB in Ubuntu 16.04, there is talk that it could increase to more than 2GB.
Why Unity 8 will not come by default in Ubuntu 16.10 has to do with the stability of the new desktop environment, is something that one of the people in charge of the distro, Mark Shuttleworth, has commented: "we will only replace Unity 7, when users tell us that is already prepared ” . The first Alpha version of Ubuntu 16.10 is expected in June.
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