7 November 2010
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Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11
Ubuntu has traditionally used the full GNOME desktop environment and its bundled shell; founder Mark Shuttleworth cited philosophical differences with the GNOME team over the user experience to explain why Ubuntu would move away from it. Unity still uses aspects of GNOME desktop environment and GNOME-based applications will continue to be supported.
The Unity shell interface will include the Compiz window manager, which Canonical states is faster than Mutter, the window manager included in the next version of the GNOME Shell interface. The main reason for the switch from Gnome Shell to the Unity shell is the speed of Compiz vs. Mutter. Canonical announced it had engineered Unity for desktop computers as well and is making Unity the default shell for Ubuntu in version 11.04.
