Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavor With 22.10 Release

While it's been long since Canonical dropped and Unity take place as the official desktop environment of Ubuntu

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some within the open-source community have still been keeping up with it and running an unofficial Ubuntu Unity flavor of the distribution

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Presently with the following month's Ubuntu 22.10 release, Ubuntu Unity will be an official flavor/spin.

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This week the voting happened and Ubuntu Unity will become a recognized flavor of Ubuntu beginning with next month's 22.10 release.

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The Ubuntu Unity flavor is essentially Ubuntu but adding in the Unity packages by default for that desktop

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And yes some extra packages like Nemo, Pluma, Synaptic, and a few other extra packages over what is found by default in Ubuntu.

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As if now Ubuntu Unity uses a slightly newer version (7.5 vs. 7.6) version of Unity than what is currently in the Ubuntu universe archive.

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There is the proposal for officially recognizing this downstream distros for Ubuntu 22.10 alongside the likes of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and other flavors.

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