LXer: Adoption of Unity is the Most Significant Change Ever for Ubuntu, Says Mark Shuttleworth
 

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It's going to be Unity all the way for Ubuntu's next major release codenamed Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal". During Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at Florida, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that the Unity shell will become Ubuntu's default interface not just for netbook editions, but also for Ubuntu desktop editions.

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Currently upgrading (via manually added repositories and apt-get in a terminal) to the Pre-Alpha, and so far Unity hasn't replaced GNOME. Will see by Alpha 1 or 2 what happens.

Apparently as I was upgrading my desktop broke. Thankfully, I had a USB key of 10.10, so I just reinstalled.

However, I do that Unity has real potential. Guess what? I was the one who filed that blueprint!

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If it works for Ubuntu, then great. It is not something I am interested in so I am sticking with Debian.

I wonder if this will increase the current Debian user base.

I was recently able to successfully upgrade to the Pre-Alpha as well as install Unity. So far there hasn't been any Unity updates, so I'll see by Alpha 3 what happens.