Unity

Ubuntu graphical user interface developed and maintained by Canonical and UBports

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Original author: Canonical Ltd.
Developer: Unity7 Maintainers
Initial release: June 9, 2010 ; 15 years ago ( 2010-06-09 )
Stable release: 7.7 / December 24, 2022 ; 3 years ago ( 2022-12-24 )
Written in: Unity 2D : C++ , JavaScript , QML , 2.0–7.4 : C , C++ , Python , Vala , UnityX : Fish (Halted)
Operating system: Ubuntu Unity
Type: Graphical shell
License: GPL v3 , LGPL v3
Website: unityd .org
Repository: code .launchpad .net /unity gitlab .com /ubuntu-unity /unity-x

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Unity is a graphical shell originally developed by Canonical Ltd. for its Ubuntu operating system. It debuted in 2010 in the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10 and was used until Ubuntu 17.10. Following its discontinuation by Canonical in 2017, development of forks of Unity7 and Unity8 has continued – the latter was renamed Lomiri in February 2020.

Unity7 is the default desktop environment in Ubuntu Unity, an official flavor of Ubuntu since 2022. The maintainers of Ubuntu Unity and Unity7 have started working on the successor of Unity7, UnityX.