In an ongoing mailing list thread, the Ubuntu Technical Board is discussing whether the new Unity environment is a suitable default for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 release, codenamed Natty Narwhal ...

The Unity environment utilizes several key components of the GNOME 3 user experience. It uses the Mutter compositing window manager and the Zeitgeist activity logging engine. The Unity launcher is ...

Then Unity happened. When Canonical decided that Ubuntu would no longer sport the extremely comfortable GNOME 2 desktop and, instead, switch to the newly conceived Unity environment… ...