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

[Josh Yavor]

On 10/13/2011 12:40 PM, John-Thomas Richards 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.
I think the best way to understand the difference is to compare Fedora 
15 to Ubuntu 11.x with Unity. I never really understood the difference 
until I threw F15 into a VM and experienced the differences. Granted, 
I'm not sure what distro-specific tweaks (if any) are made on Fedora.

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