System76 Preps Consistent GNOME Experience for Their PCs Powered by Ubuntu 17.10

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

System76’s CEO Carl Richell is reporting today on some of the upcoming changes the Linux hardware company plans to make in regards to the look and feel of the GNOME desktop environment shipping with the next major Ubuntu release.

As you are very much aware by now, Canonical is moving away from their unique and gorgeous Unity user interface to the GNOME 3 desktop environment for the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system, due for release later this year on October 19, 2017.

If you’re a System76 user, you should also probably be aware of the fact that System76 is always on top of things updating their desktop and laptop computers to the latest stable Ubuntu release. Right now, they are still shipping PCs powered by Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus).

But, later this year, after the release of Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark), they start shipping computers powered by this new OS that features the latest GNOME 3 desktop environment, … (read more)

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