Unity 8 is the next-generation Qt5-based interface for the Ubuntu Linux desktop that is already in use on Ubuntu Touch. Unity 8 is designed for use with the Mir display server and will likely make its desktop premiere in Ubuntu 14.10.

Unity 8 Articles & Reviews

A Look Back At The Desktop & X.Org/Wayland/Mir Milestones Of Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2017-04-05
Trying Out Unity 8 + Mir On Ubuntu 17.04   Operating Systems   2017-03-23
Trying Out The Experimental Unity 8 Session On Ubuntu 16.10   Software   2016-10-05

Unity 8 Linux & Open-Source News

Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Released For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Smartphones   Ubuntu   2023-03-27
Mir 2.7 Released With MirOil For Helping To Migrate Lomiri / Unity 8   Ubuntu   2022-02-24
UBports Aiming For An Exciting 2021 With Ubuntu Touch   Ubuntu   2021-01-25
Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity   Ubuntu   2020-12-29
Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri   Ubuntu   2020-05-13
Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri   Ubuntu   2020-02-28
Mir's X11 Support Is Being Promoted From Experimental   Wayland   2020-02-09
Unity 8 + Mir Is Being Packaged Up For Debian   Debian   2020-02-06
Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January   Phoronix   2020-02-01
UBports' Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2020-01-31
Unity 8 Desktop On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Take A Year Before Being Usable   Ubuntu   2020-01-14
KDE Plasma 5 + KDE Applications Matured Rather Well   KDE   2019-12-26
Ten Years Past GNOME's 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare   GNOME   2019-12-14
Ubuntu's Mir Display Stack Accomplished A Lot In 2019 For Being Discounted Two Years Ago   Ubuntu   2019-12-14
UBports Begins Offering Ubuntu Touch 64-Bit ARM Images   Arm   2019-11-06
Ubuntu's Mir Working On Replaceable Renderer, Hybrid Graphics Driver Support   Ubuntu   2019-10-28
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Released   Ubuntu   2019-10-23
Canonical Is At Around 437 Employees, Pulled In $99M While Still Operating At A Loss   Ubuntu   2019-10-16
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Released With Device Fixes, Support For Draft Messages   Ubuntu   2019-08-22
UBports Is Working On Ubuntu Touch OTA-10   Ubuntu   2019-07-31
Ubuntu Touch Nearing Updated Unity 8 + Mir, But Not Yet Full Wayland   Ubuntu   2019-06-08
Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Released With Better Stability, OTA-10 To Bring Mir 1.1 + Unity 8   Ubuntu   2019-05-08
UBports Ubuntu Touch Continues Pursuing Mir/Unity8, Broad Device Support   Ubuntu   2019-03-26
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Won't Move To Mir 1.1 + Unity 8 Due To Qualcomm Binary Blob Issues   Ubuntu   2019-02-26
It's Still A Slow Process For Ubuntu Touch Moving To Mir 1.x / Wayland   Ubuntu   2019-01-09
Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Rolls Out With Keyboard Improvements, Browser Fixes   Ubuntu   2019-01-08
Canonical Pulled In $110 Million, Down To ~440 Employees During Their Last Fiscal Year   Ubuntu   2019-01-04
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Is Being Prepared With On-Screen Keyboard Themes   Ubuntu   2019-01-02
Ubuntu Had A Very Busy 2018 But Not Everything Turned Out As Planned   Ubuntu   2018-12-30
Mir Is Back To Running On Phones, Thanks To UBports   Ubuntu   2018-09-08
UBports' Ubuntu Touch Unlikely To Move To Ubuntu 18.04 Anytime Soon   Ubuntu   2018-08-02
Mir 0.32 Released With Much-Improved Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2018-06-29
Mir 0.32 Is Inching Close To Release With Many Improvements   Ubuntu   2018-06-15
UBports To Work On Unity 8 / Mir / Wayland After OTA-4   Ubuntu   2018-05-24
Mir Wayland Cut/Copy/Paste Support Being Worked On   Wayland   2018-04-09
UBports Continues Work On Moving From Ubuntu 15.04 Base To 16.04   Ubuntu   2018-03-18
Mir Devs Are Still Working On An Example Mir Desktop Session For Ubuntu 18.04   Ubuntu   2018-03-14
UBPorts Is Working On Unity 8 For Debian   Ubuntu   2018-03-04
Raven Ridge, Vulkan & Another Valve Linux Developer Excited Folks This Month   Phoronix   2018-02-28
The Community Has Brought The Unity 8 Desktop To Ubuntu 18.04   Ubuntu   2018-02-22
UBports Continues Working On Unity 8, Developer ISO Coming   Ubuntu   2018-02-18
Mir 0.30 Released With Improved Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2018-02-15
UBports Is Making Progress With Unity 8 On The Desktop   Ubuntu   2018-01-06
The Most Popular Articles On Phoronix In 2017   Phoronix   2017-12-31
Ubuntu's Reformulated Desktop Was The Talk Of 2017   Ubuntu   2017-12-30
Wayland Made More Inroads In 2017   Wayland   2017-12-29
A Look At Canonical's Financial Performance From 2009 To 2017   Ubuntu   2017-12-26
Canonical's Mir 2018 Plans Include Some Potentially Interesting IoT Features   Ubuntu   2017-12-22
Canonical's FY2017 Performance: $126 Million, Nearly 600 Employees   Ubuntu   2017-12-21
UBports Releases Updated Ubuntu Touch (OTA-3)   Ubuntu   2017-12-21
Mir Had A Wild Year From Nearly Being Killed Alongside Unity 8 To Growing With Wayland   Ubuntu   2017-12-17
Wayland Had An Impressive 2017 With KDE Support Maturing, Mir Switching Focus   Wayland   2017-12-13
KDE Wayland Began Taking Shape, More Music Players & Other KDE Happenings In 2017   KDE   2017-12-12
Mir 0.29 Being Prepped For Release As Canonical Pushes On With Mir-Wayland   Ubuntu   2017-12-08
Mir Lands In The Fedora Repository   Fedora   2017-11-28
Unity 7 Hoping To Become An Official Flavor For Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2017-11-24
Canonical Developers To The Community: Help Us Figure Out The Direction Of Mir   Ubuntu   2017-11-23
Canonical Is Hiring Graphics Stack Developers To Work On Mir   Ubuntu   2017-11-15
Mir 0.28.1 Arrives With Fixes, Fedora Support   Ubuntu   2017-11-01
Ubuntu Developer Gets Mir Running On Fedora   Ubuntu   2017-10-21
Mir 1.0 Is Pulled Back, Now It's Mir 0.28   Ubuntu   2017-10-11
Mir Now Has Initial Support For Wayland Clients   Ubuntu   2017-09-18
Mir 1.0 Appears Close, But No Wayland Client Support Yet Nor Vulkan   Ubuntu   2017-08-12
Mir Relicensed To GPLv2 Or GPLv3   Ubuntu   2017-08-09
Mir 0.27 Released With Drag-And-Drop Support   Ubuntu   2017-07-11
Ryzen, NVIDIA & Unity 8 Abandonment Topped H1'2017   Phoronix   2017-07-03
Mir 1.0 Now Aiming To Support Wayland Clients Directly   Ubuntu   2017-06-29
MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland   Desktop   2017-06-27
System76 Continues Working On GNOME Improvements For Future Ubuntu   Ubuntu   2017-06-23
UBports Ships Its Stable OTA-1, Convergence Progress   Ubuntu   2017-06-14
Phoronix Turns 13, Phoronix Test Suite Is Now 9: Happy Birthday   Phoronix   2017-06-05
UBports Has A Lot Of Work This Summer For Letting Ubuntu Touch Live On   Ubuntu   2017-06-01
UBports Continues Plotting To Keep Ubuntu Touch Alive   Ubuntu   2017-05-18
Unity 8 Abandonment, Windows 10 vs. Linux Tests Dominated April   Phoronix   2017-04-30
DirectFB Is Back To Being Dormant   Free Software   2017-04-30
Could A New Linux Base For Tablets/Smartphones Succeed In 2017?   Operating Systems   2017-04-16
More Details On UBports' Plans For Unity, Mir & Anbox   Ubuntu   2017-04-15
Ubuntu 17.04 Now Available For Download   Ubuntu   2017-04-13
Snap Support Available On Fedora 24 And Newer   Fedora   2017-04-11
Mir Developer: Anyone Interested In Native Wayland Clients In Mir?   Ubuntu   2017-04-11
Should Ubuntu Have Gone With KDE Instead Of GNOME?   KDE   2017-04-10
UBports' Fork Of Unity 8 Plans To Eventually Get On Wayland   Desktop   2017-04-09
Mark Shuttleworth Makes More Comments On Ubuntu GNOME, Mir, Convergence   Ubuntu   2017-04-08
Former Compiz Developer: Free Software Desktop Might Enter A Dark Age   Ubuntu   2017-04-07
Mir Developer Hopes Community Will Use It & Add Wayland Compatibility   Ubuntu   2017-04-07
Mark Shuttleworth Reportedly Returning To Role As Canonical CEO   Ubuntu   2017-04-07
Ubuntu Server Exploring A New Installer & More   Ubuntu   2017-04-06
Canonical Reportedly Slashing Jobs, Seeking Outside Investment   Ubuntu   2017-04-06
Some In The Ubuntu Community Want To Fork, Maintain Unity 8   Ubuntu   2017-04-06
Ubuntu To Abandon Unity 8, Switch Back To GNOME   Ubuntu   2017-04-05
The Story of Ubuntu's Mir Abstraction Layer (MirAL)   Ubuntu   2017-04-03
2017: Should Linux Benchmarking Still Be Mostly Done With Ubuntu?   Operating Systems   2017-03-26
Ubuntu 17.04 Final Beta Released   Ubuntu   2017-03-23
Mir's Abstraction Layer Now Has Cut & Paste Support (MirAL)   Ubuntu   2017-03-23
Ubuntu's Mir Finally Supports Drag & Drop   Ubuntu   2017-03-21
There's Been A Bit Of Progress On Vulkan Support In Ubuntu's Mir   Vulkan   2017-03-13
MirAL 1.3 Adds Support For Workspaces, Background In Miral-Shell   Ubuntu   2017-03-04
With SHA1 Proven Unsafe, Ubuntu's Mir Switches From SHA1 To SHA256   Ubuntu   2017-02-27
The Features Coming For Mir 0.26: EDID, New APIs, Client-Side Vsync, Performance   Ubuntu   2017-01-31
Ubuntu Still Planning For Mir 1.0 In 2017   Ubuntu   2017-01-17
Canonical Clarifies Ubuntu Phone State: Nothing Really Until Snap-Based Image Ready   Ubuntu   2017-01-05
The Open-Source / Linux Letdowns Of 2016   Free Software   2017-01-01
The Most Viewed Ubuntu & Mir News Of 2016   Ubuntu   2016-12-26
Mir 0.25 Released: Pointer Confinement, Gamma KMS Support, Libmircore   Ubuntu   2016-12-25
Ubuntu OTA-14 Released, Fixes A Number Of Bugs   Ubuntu   2016-12-07
Mir's Abstraction Layer Updated (MirAL 0.5)   Ubuntu   2016-12-02
Mir/Ubuntu Developer Talks Up Mir Outside Of Unity 8   Ubuntu   2016-11-28
Vulkan Support On Mir Still May Be Months Away   Vulkan   2016-11-17
Unity 8 & All Snaps-Based Ubuntu Still Expected For 18.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2016-11-15
Trying Out Ubuntu GNOME 16.10, Wayland Session Not So Great   Ubuntu   2016-10-13
Ubuntu 16.10 Officially Released   Ubuntu   2016-10-13
SDL2's Mir Backend Sees Some Updates   Ubuntu   2016-09-22
Ubuntu Working On Improved Low Graphics Mode For Unity 7   Ubuntu   2016-09-01
A Video Of X11 Apps Running On Mir With Ubuntu 16.10 Using Libertine   Ubuntu   2016-07-13
Libertine: Allowing X11 Debian Packages To Run On The Next-Gen Ubuntu Desktop   Ubuntu   2016-07-05
Unity 8 Continues To Improve, But Still Has Rough Edges   Ubuntu   2016-05-10
Ubuntu 16.10 Developer Summit Videos To Watch This Weekend   Ubuntu   2016-05-06
Initial Planning For Ubuntu 16.10 Today At UOS   Ubuntu   2016-05-03
Ubuntu 16.10 Isn't Going To Use Mir / Unity 8 By Default   Ubuntu   2016-05-03
Unity 8, Mir, Snappy & Other Focuses For Next Week's Ubuntu UOS-1605   Ubuntu   2016-04-29
Ubuntu 16.10's YY Codename Revealed   Ubuntu   2016-04-21
Wayland Will Not Be The Default Of Fedora 24   Fedora   2016-03-04
Ubuntu 16.10 Planning Will Take Place At UOS In May: What Do You Hope To See?   Ubuntu   2016-02-03
The Biggest Wayland & Mir News Of The Year   Wayland   2015-12-29
The Most Exciting Ubuntu News Of The Year   Ubuntu   2015-12-28
It Was Five Years Ago Since Ubuntu Thought They Would Switch To Wayland   Wayland   2015-11-06
Various Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Decisions From This Week's Summit   Ubuntu   2015-11-05
Mark Shuttleworth Kicks Off Ubuntu 16.04 Development Discussions   Ubuntu   2015-11-04
The Ubuntu Online Summit Begins Tomorrow For The Xenial Xerus   Ubuntu   2015-11-02
Years After Wayland 1.0, Will 2016 Be The Year Of The Wayland Desktop?   Wayland   2015-10-25
External Screen Support For Unity 8 On Ubuntu Phone Is Finally Near   Ubuntu   2015-10-24
Mir Continues Cleaning Up Their OpenGL Code, To Support Vulkan In Future   Ubuntu   2015-10-07
Ubuntu Is Making Progress With Their Unity 8 Greeter On The Desktop   Ubuntu   2015-09-23
Ubuntu Needs Help Fixing Thousands Of Unity/Compiz Bugs For 16.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2015-09-15
Canonical Shows Legacy X11 Apps Running On Mir With Unity 8   Ubuntu   2015-09-07
Ubuntu's Roadmap Around Snappy, Phones & Mir / Unity 8   Ubuntu   2015-08-04
Mir-On-X & Dynamic Double Buffering Are The Latest Mir Work   Ubuntu   2015-06-13
Ubuntu 15.10 Release Schedule Firmed Up   Ubuntu   2015-05-21
The Exciting Ubuntu 15.10 Linux News Of The Past Week   Ubuntu   2015-05-10
Mir 0.14 Enters Development   Ubuntu   2015-05-08
Ubuntu Benchmarking Workloads + Clouds   Ubuntu   2015-05-06
Ubuntu Touch Is Making Progress On Porting To Systemd   Ubuntu   2015-05-06
A Demo Of Ubuntu's Unity 8 On The Desktop   Ubuntu   2015-05-06
The Unity 8 Items Being Worked On For The Ubuntu Desktop   Ubuntu   2015-05-06
Deb-Based Ubuntu Will Continue To Be Offered For The Foreseeable Future   Ubuntu   2015-05-05
It's A Long Road Ahead To Get Ubuntu Snappy On The Desktop   Ubuntu   2015-05-05
An Ubuntu Phone Will Ship This Year With The Converged Unity Experience   Ubuntu   2015-05-04
Ubuntu 15.10 Plans Being Discussed Next Week   Ubuntu   2015-04-28
Ubuntu's Desktop-Next Switching From .DEBs To Snappy   Ubuntu   2015-04-23
Pictures Of The Near Production Ready Ubuntu Tablet   Ubuntu   2015-03-04