The next version of desktop Ubuntu, Natty Narwhal, will ship with Canonical's Unity as the default skin instead of Gnome's user interface. Ubuntu 11.04 and future desktop releases will use Unity as ...

ORLANDO, FLA. — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that the next ...

In some ways, it was an easy choice. Shuttleworth wrote, "The cloud and IoT story for Ubuntu is excellent and continues to improve. You all probably know that most public cloud workloads, and most ...

A vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) could allow a standard user to create accounts with increased privileges, giving a local attacker a path to run code with administrator permissions (root ...

Canonical is changing the default interface on the next release of Ubuntu from GNOME to Unity, a new open source project that focuses on simplified interface and three dimensional displays. Canonical ...

If you see the "unable to capture a screenshot, all possible methods failed" error when using GNOME Screenshot in Ubuntu, it ...

<B>Background</B><BR><BR>Quick version - installed xubuntu on a coworkers old laptop and it piqued my interest.<BR><BR>Installed the xubuntu desktop (xfce) on my Ubuntu 9.10 installation.

After years of working on a user interface designed to run across phones, tablets, and desktop computers, the developers of the Ubuntu operating system have decided to shift focus. Starting next year, ...

The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu recently finalized its move to the new Unity interface, while other Linux distributions are moving to the new GNOME 3 shell. Both interfaces are remarkably ...