Ubuntu Wayland: Shuttleworth's post-Mac makeover
Ubuntu Linux spent the last few months of 2010 dropping bombshells on the Linux world. Founder Mark Shuttleworth is clearly intent on shaking the foundations of his popular Linux distro and pushing it, and Linux at large, in new directions.
Ubuntu has long focused on not just making Linux work, but on making it look good. The Ubuntu desktop is already one of the most polished and easy-to-use versions of Linux available. But in 2010, Shuttleworth began turning his back on that desktop and started plans to pursue an even more radical change - the Unity desktop.
The Unity desktop began life in the netbook remix of Ubuntu 10.10, offering a lightweight alternative to the GNOME desktop. Unity was originally designed for netbooks, where small screens and underpowered processors make GNOME cumbersome and slow. Unity is still rough around the edges, but Ubuntu is clearly smitten - so much so that Unity will be the default for the desktop version of Ubuntu from here on out.
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Pushed in new directions
I pushed it in new directions too... right to the trashcan. Unity and Wayland = not for me!
Unity? Wayland? On the flagship product?
Forgive me, I'm confused. I thought Ubuntu was a product for the desktop on relatively modern computers. When was the hard left turn taken to concentrate on netbooks and mobile devices?
Oh well. The Ubuntu kernel/udev panics early on my desktop, and has since 10.04. No loss, there are other distros which still work.