Ubuntu Leftovers: GNOME, Birthday and More
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How To Install Vanilla GNOME Shell on Ubuntu 17.10
So you’ve installed Ubuntu 17.10 but you’re not 100% sold on the direction Ubuntu has taken the GNOME desktop in — no shame in that.
The customized version of GNOME that Ubuntu 17.10 uses is very much in the mould of the (now defunct) Unity desktop, so it won’t be to everyone’s tastes.
If you’d like to sample GNOME Shell as GNOME developers intend it to be sampled you can do so very easily.
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Happy 13th Birthday, Ubuntu!
Believe it or not but today is Ubuntu’s 13th birthday!
Thirteen terrific, and occasional tumultuous, years to the day since Mark Shuttleworth sat down to tap out the first Ubuntu release announcement.
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Ubuntu Linux will never be the same after version 17.10
Ready for a really new Ubuntu desktop? Then start downloading Ubuntu 17.10 today. Canonical has abandoned its Unity interface in favor of the new GNOME 3.26 desktop, and has replaced its homegrown Mir display server with Wayland.
That may sound like a radical change, but it you look closely at the new Ubuntu 17.10, Artful Aardvark, desktop, it will look familiar. That's because while the underlying technologies have changed, Ubuntu's developers have customized its default GNOME desktop to look and feel like Unity.
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Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark is ready for download
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Ubuntu 17.10 releases with GNOME, Kubernetes 1.8; delivers minimal base images
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How to install and use Uncomplicated Firewall in Ubuntu
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