It's been three years since the promising Ubuntu
GNOME distribution was started, which later become an official Ubuntu
flavor due to the demand from the community to use a pure GNOME desktop
environment on top of a solid Ubuntu Linux base, which was not
technically possible because of dependency conflicts with the Unity
interface.
Unfortunately, we would have loved this distro more
if it could ship with the latest version of the GNOME desktop
environment in time, but being able to upgrade at a later time is also a
good thing. Therefore, Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS launches today with the
GNOME 3.18 desktop environment
"The brave fearless volunteers behind Ubuntu GNOME
is very happy to announce the official release of Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS
supported for 3 years and this is our 2nd official Long Term Support
(LTS) version," said the maintainer of the Ubuntu GNOME operating system
in the official release announcement.
Here's what's new in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS
Release highlights of Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS include
three years of support with critical security patches and latest
software updates, the GNOME Software package manager as a replacement
for the now deprecated Ubuntu Software Center app, as well as better
support for installing language packs, and iBus improvements.
The GNOME Calendar and GNOME Logs applications are
now installed by default, the GNOME Builder IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) can be found in the main repositories, there's now support
for installing Snappy packages in the "snap" format, and a root-less
X.Org session is now available, along with support for a GNOME Classic
session.
Another interesting aspect of the Ubuntu GNOME 16.04
LTS operating system release is that it includes an experimental
Wayland session, which users can enable if they install the
gnome-session-wayland package. Then, the "GNOME on Wayland" option will
be available on the login screen.
Default applications of Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS
(Xenial Xerus) include the Mozilla Firefox web browser, LibreOffice
office suite, Nautilus file manager, Gedit text editor, as well as the
GNOME Tweak Tool utility. The OS ships with Linux kernel 4.4 LTS. Download the Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS ISO images right now via our website.
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