The Desktop Faces Of Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1

“Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1 is set to be released today and many of
you have been wondering what Canonical’s Unity desktop will look
like in this forthcoming release codenamed Natty Narwhal. I, for
one, have been quite interested based upon the terrible Unity
experience in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook, so I fired up the latest Ubuntu
Natty daily LiveCD released this morning. Here are some screenshots
of the new Ubuntu Unity desktop as it stands in Natty Alpha 1 along
with screenshots of Natty’s classic GNOME desktop.

“Unity is the default desktop shell in Ubuntu 11.04 on supported
systems, which right now basically comes down to systems that are
backed by open-source drivers with 3D acceleration support for the
default Compiz compositing window manager. For Ubuntu 11.04 this
basically means those with Intel i915 IGPs or newer, most all ATI
Radeon graphics processors except for the newest Radeon HD 6000
series, and potentially most NVIDIA graphics cards”

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