Desktop Ubuntu will go back to Gnome
Ubuntu is to kill off efforts to put its operating system on smartphones and tablets.
In a blog post , Ubuntu found Mark Shuttleworth, said that the company would end Unity8, the phone and convergence shell and shift its default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This new version of the desktop will ship in April 2018.
With the move, the company has close off plans to have a phone acting as a desktop when docked into a special device hooked up to a display.
He said the company would continue to produce desktop software and maintain the existing LTS releases, working with partners to distribute this software and support corporate customers.
Shuttleworth said he took the view that “if convergence was the future and we could deliver it as free software, that would be widely appreciated both in the free software community and in the technology industry, where there is substantial frustration with the existing, closed, alternatives available to manufacturers”.
