Unity

Unity is the default UI for Ubuntu Netbook Edition in 10.10. It's a step forward in the Netbook Edition, making it easy and well-fitted for those screen sizes to get a desktop environment. More information on Unity is available on sabdfl's blog.

How to test Unity

on maverick (10.10)

on UNE edition

Unity is the default UI for Ubuntu Netbook Edition. The easiest way to test it is to install the Netbook Edition of the 10.10 development cycle from the daily built iso available there.

with a standard ubuntu-desktop edition

1. Run just sudo apt-get install ubuntu-netbook

2. This will add in GDM a "Ubuntu Netbook Edition" menu option when you click on your username. Select it and login to get the Unity interface.

Update frequence

Unity is weekly released. Stay tuned!

on lucid (10.04 LTS)

Unity is primarily built for maverick (10.10), but we are conscious that some people want to test it on lucid. For those, we have setup a PPA and backport unity component to lucid.

1. If you are on Lucid, load a terminal and run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-dx-team/une and sudo apt-get update.

2. Run sudo apt-get install ubuntu-netbook-unity-default-settings.

3. Logout and choose in GDM your "Ubuntu Unity Netbook Edition" menu option when you click on your username

is there a difference from the maverick version?

Apart from the fact we have a different session name "Unity" instead of "UNE" and a fake metapackage "ubuntu-netbook-unity-default-settings", the behavior is the same. The only other difference is that you still can have netbook-launcher (the 10.04 LTS UNE interface) in a parallel install than Unity.

Update frequence

Unity is weekly released. The lucid update comes shortly after the maverick one.