Unity
Not to be confused with the game engine that has the same name.
Developer(s) | Unity7 maintainers, UBports, Canonical Ltd. (formerly) |
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Latest release version | Unity 7.6 |
Unity is a desktop environment created and formerly maintained by Canonical Ltd. It is a graphical shell for Ubuntu and was created to make more efficient use of the limited screen space provided in netbooks. Although it was discontinued on 5 April 2017, it is still being maintained by its community. A continuation of it was available, called UnityX.
Distributions that provide it as default GUI[edit | edit source]
Here provides a list of what distributions use it as a default/alternative desktop environment out of the box.
- Ubuntu (formerly)
- Ubuntu Unity