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Canonical’s Dropping of Unity Is Only the Iceberg’s Tip

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Christine Hall
Apr 10, 2017

The news that Ubuntu will be dropping development of key desktop components is probably going to eventually be a boon for enterprise users, especially in the cloud. I say “probably,” because there seems to be some kind of shakeup happening at the Linux distribution, and we’ll need to see how things pan-out before we can trust what our crystal ball is telling us.

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Christine Hall

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