Ubuntu GNOME Remix is a new official Ubuntu flavor that aims to bring a pure upstream GNOME desktop experience built from the Ubuntu 12.10 repositories.
An alpha version of Ubuntu GNOME Remix is a developer snapshot that will give you a very early glance at the next version of Ubuntu GNOME Remix.
Ubuntu Gnome Remix has following features:
The Ubuntu GNOME Remix ships with the first GNOME
I began to follow this project during Quantal development and you may find some useful notes here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2064293
This project should not be confused with UGR, Ubuntu GNOME Shell Remix, or any other project.
The differences are stark, as the release notes say, "The Ubuntu GNOME Remix is a mostly pure GNOME desktop experience built from the Ubuntu rep
Ubuntu GNOME Remix, a GNOME-based distribution built from the Ubuntu repositories, has finally reached version 12.10 with the rest of its older brothers. Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) is the first stable release under Canonical’s umbrella and includes the most recent Gnome packages, mostly.
The second Alpha images of the upcoming Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 distribution was announced yesterday, September 13th, by Jeremy Bicha and the Ubuntu Gnome Community.
Since a lot of the info in my original post is now outdated I felt it best to start a new thread related solely to Jeremy Bicha's Ubuntu GNOME Remix Beta release which is explained in the release notes here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/...otes/12.10Beta
The MD5SUMS, package manifests, and standard download links can be found here:
http://bicha.net/ubuntu-gnome-remix/
Please do however
I want to try Ubuntu (tried different distro's many times before), but none were really to my liking. I always seem to be drawn to Ubuntu, thanks to the PPA's and software. What I don't like is Unity, particularly the Dash.
Good news for those who like to use Gnome Shell on Ubuntu. Starting with Ubuntu 12.10, there will be separate Ubuntu 12.10 build based on vanilla Gnome Shell. The desktop interface will provide out of the box upstream Gnome 3 experience.
This Gnome Shell based Ubuntu Flavor is unnamed yet.
GNOME 3.6 Released
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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.6, the
latest version of the popular free desktop, as well as the GNOME
developer platform.
GNOME 3.6 is the third major update of GNOME 3. It builds on the
foundations that we have laid with the previous 3.x releases and
offers a greatly enhanced experience.
The GNOME Project is proud to present GNOME 3.6, the third update to the 3.x series. This latest version of GNOME 3 includes a number of new features and enhancements, as well as many bug fixes and minor improvements.
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