What is unity ?
Unity is a well known desktop environment developed by Canonical for Ubuntu specifically. It is well known for features like simplicity, power and integration for both users and app developers. The unity project was started in 2010 by Canonical and was aimed for notebook users but it has spawned a great deal for desktop and mobile devices as well. It offers a consistent and elegant desktop environment for ubuntu desktop and notebook users. The most recent under development version for Unity is 8.
Salient Feature of Unity.
Unity, under constant development, is being equipped with many features and bug fixes. The upcoming latest release can be considered as a mile stone as it introduces new techniques to overcome the issues and enhance this desktop environment’s usability and integration. Here are some of the noteworthy features of release 8:
- It will be using Mir Display technology, which aims at replacing the traditional X system.
- Improved full shell rotation
- Multi Monitor Support for desktop systems
- Welcome Wizard and Notification system improvements
- Desktop zoom similar to Mac OS X
- updated ppa/CFT
- Dynamic input platform and integrating libinput functionality
- Automatic Driver probing
Installing the latest Unity 8 user interface on the daily build version of Ubuntu 15.10 or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is too easy. To install Unity 8, all you have to do is open the Terminal app (Applications >> Terminal) and paste the following commands.one by one, hitting the Enter key on your keyboard after each one. Just keep in mind to wait for the first command to finish before attempting to paste the next command.
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