#ITUNES FOR UBUNTU 17.04 UPDATE#

What makes Shuttleworth's announcement a little odd is that Unity 7 is a very mature and stable desktop. As Shuttleworth wroteВ in his announcement, 'what the Unity 8 team has delivered so far is beautiful, usable, and solid, but I respect that markets, and community, ultimately decide which products grow and which disappear.' And thoughВ Unity 8 did indeed look promising, unfortunately it's not something that mobile carriers and phone makers seemed to want.

#ITUNES FOR UBUNTU 17.04 UPDATE#

In fact, Ubuntu's twice-yearly update schedule has lately felt more like a burden the company has to deal with while the real work of building Unity 8 happened in between. Technically Ubuntu 17.10 will comeВ later this year, but it seems unlikely the company is going to put much effort into developing a desktop it is abandoning. While Ubuntu 17.04 offers a few new features, bug fixes, and improvements over its predecessor, it qualifies as a significant release because it will likely be the last version of Unity that Canonical ships. There have been a few feature updates and some work on bringing in more up-to-date GNOME and GTK elements, but by and large they've been maintenance releases. To be fair, however, the last few Ubuntu desktop releases haven't had much wind in their sails to start with. Shuttleworth posted that news just a few days before Ubuntu 17.04 arrived, which took a considerable amount of wind out of theВ sails for thisВ update to Canonical'sВ flagship Unity-based Linux desktop.

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