A Quick History of Ubuntu: from 4.10 to 19.04, from GNOME to Unity to GNOME 3

Ubuntu, while still one of the major Linux distros, is pretty much always at the center of a love / hate relationship these days. In today's video, I'd like to take a look a Ubuntu's history. Let's go !

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Ubuntu's inception The first version, Ubuntu 4.10, Warty Warthog was released in Octobre 2004. It sported a GNOME 2.8 default interface, with a clear departure from the mainly blue themes of the time, using a brown GTK theme and wallpaper, with the default GNOME icons.

4.10 was followed by Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog and 5.10 Breezy Badger, which added an update manager, support for hibernation and suspend, as well as a tool to add and remove installed programs, a menu editor called Alacarte.

Ubuntu's maturity Following Breezy Badger was Dapper Drake. It was the first long term support release of Ubuntu, meaning it would be supported by Canonical for three years. It is also the first and only Ubuntu release to be delayed, releasing in June, hence the version number 6.06. Dapper Drake introduced a whole new theme called Human, complete with new icons and switching to a more vivid orange instead of the previous dull brown. It focused on ease of installation, merging the Live CD and install CD in one image, and providing a graphical installer for the first time. Branding was also more present, with a custom splash screen at startup displaying the ubuntu logo.

This was the start of a four years cycle of refinements and maturity for Ubuntu. Seven more releases would follow, further refining the Human GNOME theme, and adding new applications on the default install.

Redesign Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx was released in April of 2010. It was an LTS version, and it sported a whole new theme, mixing more subtle orange with purple (or aubergine) colors. This theme was supposed to be lighter on the eyes, with more contrast, and more pleasing colors, and the window controls were moved to the left of the windows. This change divided users, some applauding the departure from pure orange and the more modern look and feel, and some thinking these changes were made to copy Mac OS X, thinking that Ubuntu was diluting its identity.

The Unity era A desktop environment has never been so ironically named as Ubuntu's Unity. With the release of GNOME 3.0 and GNOME Shell, Ubuntu's theme decided to implement their own desktop environment, called Unity. GNOME Shell 3.0 was a radical departure from the usual desktop metaphor, which rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, including the Ubuntu desktop team.

It featured a top bar with a global and a dock, and was reminiscent of Mac OS X,and implemented the "Dash", a way to search for about an ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdrjATI8BA