Unity interface

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 March 2011 01:24, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> IMO it's not getting better. The basic premise of swapping everyone over
>> to Unity (modified Gnome3) as default is just plain wrong (IMO). I
>> certainly wouldn't mind if 11.04 concentrated on fixing broken crap from
>> 10.10 and offering Unity as an alternate. But to use 11.04 (a "LTS" btw)
>> as a testing ground for showcasing Unity as default? Give it a rest.
>
> Hang on a cotton-pickin' minute. 11.04 is /not/ going to be an LTS
> release. The next LTS is expected to be 12.04, 2yr on from 10.04, as
> that was 2yr on from 8.04 and that was from the slightly-delayed 6.06.
>

He's right.  LTS releases only come once every 2 years.

> They're most certainly not testing Unity out on an LTS. They did that
> with the button-move, which I thought was brave or foolish, but they
> are at least giving Unity 2 full releases before the next LTS. Plenty
> of time to abandon it if it all goes wrong!
>

Mark Shuttleworth I think is a bit jealous of Apple's success.  If
you've noticed, the Ubuntu desktop has been getting more and more
Mac-ish over the years.

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