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Ars Technica reports that Unity, Ubuntu's controversial self-developed desktop environment, is no more.
Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment.
Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical posted online about the change to, as he put it, "Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than Phone and convergence":
We are wrapping up an excellent quarter and an excellent year for the company, with performance in many teams and products that we can be proud of. As we head into the new fiscal year, it's appropriate to reassess each of our initiatives. I'm writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
[...] I took the view that, if convergence was the future and we could deliver it as free software, that would be widely appreciated both in the free software community and in the technology industry, where there is substantial frustration with the existing, closed, alternatives available to manufacturers. I was wrong on both counts.
Some love Unity; for others, it never caught on. Will it be missed, nostalgically and/or technologically?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @06:40PM
comp!z utterly and completly f#cked over m$ and apple.
instead of a decade long roll out of new desktop effects probably going over windows ver 7 to 23
compiz happend overnight and opensource.
my secret paranoia is that gnom3 and kde4 were insider sabotage paid for by m$ because comp!z
wiped out some potentiel billions in "upgrade and new feature profits".
many a people pluged into the m$ matrix got lured enough by youtube videos demoing comp!z to give the matrix busting linux a chance to live on their harddisks.