Ubuntu Flavours | ^new^

Instead of forcing everyone onto one ship, the captain did something unprecedented. He said: "Fine. You want a different helm? Take the engine. Take the apt repositories. Take the kernel. Build your own vessel. Just keep the name Ubuntu in your hull so people know you came from here."

Ubuntu "flavours" are official variations of the Ubuntu operating system that use the same core infrastructure but provide different and default applications. Because they share the same software repositories, any application available for standard Ubuntu can be installed on any flavour. The Official Lineup ubuntu flavours

MATE is the ghost of GNOME 2. When GNOME 3 arrived with its radical changes, a group of developers forked the old code and called it MATE (pronounced mah-tay , after a South American tea). Ubuntu MATE wrapped this ghost in a modern Ubuntu engine. Instead of forcing everyone onto one ship, the

The captain, wise but stubborn, said: "Trust the design. Unity is coming." Take the engine

Canonical, for all its ego, looked at the Unity rebellion and said: “We will not force you to love us. We will give you the tools to love yourself.”