The distribution joins the Ubuntu Team with Kubuntu and Xubuntu

Mar 13, 2013 16:23 GMT  ·  By

Among all the disputes about Ubuntu, Mir, and the possibility of adopting a rolling release model, the developers of Ubuntu GNOME have announced that their distribution had been accepted as an official Ubuntu flavor.

There are a lot of Ubuntu flavors, usually based upon different desktop environments such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu.

According to the developers, Ubuntu GNOME aims to bring a mostly pure GNOME desktop to Ubuntu users.

“Our first release for 12.10 showed that there was a strong demand for a great GNOME experience on Ubuntu and we are now working towards our second release based on Ubuntu 13.04. We will not be participating in this week's Beta 1 Release but we are planning to release images for the Final Beta at the end of the month,” the developers stated in the official announcement.

This means that Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 will be released with GNOME 3.6, but the 3.8 branch will be available through the gnome3-team PPA.