Ubuntu 18.04 To Ship with GNOME Desktop, Not Unity
By Joey Sneddon under Breaking 1 min ago
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will use GNOME as its default desktop environment, not Unity.

In an extraordinary blog post that I have yet to fully digest, Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is to end its investment in Unity 8, Ubuntu for Phones and tablets, and end its ambition to seek “convergence”.

“I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell,” he writes.

“We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.”

“We will continue to produce the most usable open source desktop in the world, to maintain the existing LTS releases, to work with our commercial partners to distribute that desktop, to support our corporate customers who rely on it, and to delight the millions of IoT and cloud developers who innovate on top of it,” he says.

Wow.

Details are still scant as this news is literally just breaking. This post will be updated as I sup my coffee and resolve the shock.