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Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver LTS Gets a New Linux Desktop

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 26, 2018

 Among the things that desktop users will quickly notice in Ubuntu 18.04 is that the Unity desktop that was the default for 16.04 is not being used anymore. Instead Ubuntu 18.04 makes use of the GNOME 3.28 desktop as the default. In this slideshow, eWEEK looks at some of the highlights of the Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux release.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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