Gnome Shell Ubuntu aka Gubuntu Is Coming!

Sebastien Bacher posted a call for contributors on a mailing list and I got some indication of Gubuntu there. He was calling for contributors -- package maintainers, hackers (on softwares or tools), documentation writers, bug triagers, tester, etc. to help the Ubuntu team.

What got my attention was "- the GNOME session, it would be really cool if a team stepped up to maintain a derivative iso with gnome-shell by default."

What it means is that there is a possibility of a derivative of Ubuntu which runs Gnome Shell instead of Unity. I think this is an exciting possibility. It will also wash the stain from Ubuntu's linen that their policy is 'my way of high way' with Unity (Mark has said that they won't change the location of Launcher bar). Creation of Gubuntu will in fact help the further 'adoption' of Ubuntu within the circle which doesn't like Unity.

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