If you were bitten by 16.04, but not bitten hard enough to want to get off the LTS bandwagon, sit tight. If it were up to me, I'd much rather support Ubuntu 16.10 for five years than 16.04, so luckily most of what's great about 16.10 will be backported to 16.04 at some point. ![]() Ubuntu 16.10 has fixed most of the issues that plagued the 16.04 release, which was supposed to be the Long Term Support release. In the meantime, Canonical has shipped a very nice desktop operating system that's fast and stable. Users should probably stop holding their breath waiting for it to arrive. The truth, the reality we'll end up with, looks to be somewhere below Canonical's fantasies of do anything phones and flesh-eating updates that install Windows instead of Linux.Īll of that is to say: Unity 8 still isn't here yet. I really do, but I've started to think convergence is about as likely as the zombie apocalypse. I've started to feel like Fox Mulder waiting for Unity 8. Of course, the fuss is about "convergence." The fuss is about the purported future in which you plug your phone into a monitor and it turns into a full desktop computing experience. And users can even try out a Unity 8 session by clicking the Ubuntu symbol next to their username when they log in. It's worth noting that Ubuntu 16.10 is the first official release of Ubuntu to ship with Unity 8 and Mir available. But the difference is that GNOME 3 isn't tied to Wayland and has been cranking out impressive releases for some time now while Unity 7.5 is feeling, well, a bit dated. Wayland will likely be the default for the Fedora Project's next release, Fedora 25. ![]() In Canonical's defense, the competing display server project, Wayland, hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. ![]() Yet in Ubuntu 16.10, there's still no Unity 8 nor Mir. ![]() Ubuntu 16.10 is the seventh release since the fabled Unity 8 and its accompanying Mir display server were announced. Still, while the Unity 7.5 desktop offers stability and speed today, it's not long for this world. This less experimental but worthwhile update continues to refine and bug-fix what at this point has become the fastest, stablest, least-likely-to-completely-change-between-point releases of the three major "modern" Linux desktops. There's plenty in Ubuntu 16.10 that makes it worth the upgrade, though nothing about Canonical's latest release is groundbreaking.
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