Simple question

[Hewjr100]

Can anybody tell me for sure if gnome3 (gnome-shell) will be available in Ubuntu 11.10. I have read conflicting articles some saying yes and others saying no.

Henry

[wolfen69]

It will be available in the repos. I guarantee it.

[Hewjr100]

Now that's what I like a personal guarantee:p

Henry

[Alwimo]

You'll be able to install Gnome Shell just by typing "sudo apt-get install gnome-shell" into the terminal, giving your password when prompted and entering 'y'.

Easy! :)

But it will come with Gnome 3 installed, which is different from Gnome Shell, running underneath Unity. Unity, like Gnome Shell, are shells that go over something else. 11.04's Unity was a shell for Gnome 2. 11.10's Unity and Gnome Shell go over Gnome 3.

Being able to switch between Unity and Gnome Shell easily is the thing I'm most excited about in 11.10. :)

[kaldor]

Now that's what I like a personal guarantee:p

Henry

It's already there if you want to try the beta.