Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety yak will not bring unity 8 by default

Unity 8 and the Mir window manager are the basic pillars of the convergence that Canonical is pursuing so they are expected as May water, it seems that Canonical has more than one problem with Unity 8 and will not be included by default in Ubuntu 16.10, the next version of your operating system.

Unity 8 and Mir will have to wait a little longer

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak will continue to work by default with Unity 7 as the desktop environment, something that will disappoint fans. However Unity 8 will continue to be available for installation as an option along with the Mir window manager. Recall that Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak will be a non-LTS version, so we all hope to see great news that should be polished for the next Ubuntu 18.04 LTS that will arrive in two years as its name indicates.

Among the great novelties of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak we can cite the change from Ubuntu UI Toolkit from QML to C ++, an improvement in convergence, integration of the Vulkan API driver in Mir, improvement in the Snap package system and a greater number of applications adapted to Unity 8.

You can find numerous tutorials for Ubuntu 16.04 in our tutorials section

Source: omgubuntu