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Unity 8 Fork "Yunit" Now Available as an Overlay Repository for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Unity 8 fork yunit now available as an overlay repository for ubuntu 16 04 lts

Yunit, the community-driven Unity 8 fork created soon after Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that his company would no longer be involved in the development of the Unity 8 user interface for phones or desktops, now has a repository for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) systems.

The team behind Yunit has been hard at work on this new overlay repository over the past month, allowing users to install it on their Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installations, no matter if they’re using Ubuntu 16.04.1 or Ubuntu 16.04.2, and it even works on top of your Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS, Xubuntu 16.04 LTS or Lubuntu 16.04 LTS installations if you want an alternative desktop environment based on Unity 8.

“We are pleased to announce that Yunit is now available as an overlay repository for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial (64bit),” says Yunit developer John Salatas in today’s announcement. “The following have bee… (read more)

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