[GRLUG] Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released!!

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 12:43:42 EDT 2011


On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John-Thomas Richards
<jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:54:27AM -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> [snip]
>>     * For the Unity-haters, you can install Gnome Shell with a simple
>> 'sudo apt-get install gnome-shell'
> [snip]
>
> Wait...isn't "Unity" just what Ubuntu calls the interface for GNOME 3.x?
> Other than Ubuntu-tweakiness, is it radically different?
>
> [google-google-google]  Hmm...  Unity was originally built on GNOME 2.x
> while it will (is now?) be built on GNOME 3.x.  Huh.  It doesn't *look*
> all that different.

My laptop didn't have the video hardware requirements to be able to
run Unity in 11.04. I don't think that'll change with 11.10. I'm
admittedly curious, though.
-- 
:wq

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