- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- February 21st, 2018
Canonical's Unity 8 Desktop Revived by UBports with Support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
It's also supported on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- July 12th, 2017
Unity 8 Fork "Yunit" Now Available as an Overlay Repository for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Also works on Ubuntu GNOME, Xubuntu and Lubuntu 16.04
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- April 18th, 2017
UBports Recommends Buying Fairphone 2, OnePlus One or Nexus 5 as Ubuntu Phones
Anbox already works on the OnePlus One device
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- April 11th, 2017
UBports to Provide Legacy Support for BQ Ubuntu Phones, Create Their Own Store
They will eventually update Ubuntu Touch to Ubuntu 16.04
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- April 7th, 2017
Unity 8 Now Has a New Home Over at UBports, Development Will Start Very Soon
UBports team is keeping Unity 8 alive for mobile devices
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- April 6th, 2017
Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 Are Not Dead, UBports Community Will Keep Them Alive
More devices will be transformed into Ubuntu Phones soon
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- April 5th, 2017
Canonical to Stop Developing Unity 8, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ships with GNOME Desktop
Ubuntu Phone and convergence plans are put on hold
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- January 17th, 2017
Canonical: 2017 Will See a Mir 1.0 Release, Plans to Implement Vulkan Support
2016 was a good year for Mir, says the company behind Ubuntu
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- November 17th, 2016
Ubuntu 17.04 to Offer an Evolved Unity 8 Session As More Apps Will Run as Snaps
Canonical's Ubuntu convergence vision continues
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- November 15th, 2016
Ubuntu Online Summit for Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) Starts Today, November 15
It will be held for two days, until November 16, 2016
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- October 5th, 2016
Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) to Ship with an Optional Unity 8 Session After All
The distro is now powered by the final Linux 4.8 kernel
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- August 23rd, 2016
Canonical Releases Massive Mir 0.24.0 Display Server Update for Ubuntu Linux OS
There are numerous enhancements and bugfixes in this release
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- May 7th, 2016
Mark Shuttleworth: We Won't Make the Same Mistake Again with Unity 8
It won't be ready for public consumption before user testing
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- May 6th, 2016
Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Takes Shape, Promises Unity 8 Improvements and Miracast
Final Freeze is approaching fast, possibly next
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- May 5th, 2016
Unity 8 and Snaps Are the Future of the Ubuntu Desktop, After Ubuntu 16.10
More and more snaps are coming to the Ubuntu Store
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Marius Nestor
- May 3rd, 2016
Unity 8 Won't Be the Default Desktop Session for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)
Unity8 desktop environment is still under heavy development
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- February 9th, 2016
New Ubuntu Phone Patch Is Coming Soon to Fix Infamous Mir Bug, Says Canonical
Unity 8 gets support for the Ubuntu Tablet