If you've been using last autumn's 17.10 release, you're already familiar with the new, slightly customized version of GNOME arriving to replace Ubuntu's Unity desktop. Not only is 18.04 well worth the upgrade-especially for those coming all the way from the last LTS release (16.04)-it's worth checking out even if you use a completely different distro.

And for the first time in quite a while, Ubuntu feels like a distro that is firing on all cylinders, turning out what might be its strongest release ever, in an LTS package no less.

You might think the end of Unity would leave Ubuntu rudderless and drifting, but I'd argue it has done just the opposite.įurther Reading Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next yearīionic Beaver marks the first time LTS release users get a look at Ubuntu's new GNOME-based desktop. While the Unity user interface was very much a love it or hate it experience, it was (for better or worse) the thing that defined Ubuntu for nearly the past decade. The demise of the company's Unity desktop, which Canonical abandoned to focus on its work for server and IoT systems, comes nearly seven years after it first replaced GNOME 2. Ubuntu 18.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release and will receive updates and support from Canonical until April 2023. You can opt out of sending metrics back, but Mark Shuttleworth says that the metadata will help guide decisions about future releases and give Canonical a picture of what kind of hardware people are installing Ubuntu on.Ĭanonical recently released Ubuntu 18.04, the company's latest iteration of its popular Linux distribution, nicknamed Bionic Beaver.

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