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Ubuntu Unity, the Glossary

Ubuntu Unity is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, using the Unity interface in place of Ubuntu's GNOME Shell.^[1]

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Adwaita (design language)

Adwaita is the design language of the GNOME desktop environment. Ubuntu Unity and Adwaita (design language) are GNOME.

See Ubuntu Unity and Adwaita (design language)

Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

See Ubuntu Unity and Bangalore

In computing, BIOS (Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup).

See Ubuntu Unity and BIOS

Canonical (company)

Canonical Ltd. is a privately held computer software company based in London, England.

See Ubuntu Unity and Canonical (company)

Cheese (software)

Cheese is the former default webcam application for the GNOME desktop, i.e. an application to handle UVC streams over Video4Linux.

See Ubuntu Unity and Cheese (software)

Compiz

Compiz is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management.

See Ubuntu Unity and Compiz

CUPS

CUPS (formerly an acronym for Common UNIX Printing System) is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer to act as a print server.

See Ubuntu Unity and CUPS

Deb (file format)

deb is the format, as well as filename extension of the software package format for the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives.

See Ubuntu Unity and Deb (file format)

Debian

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. Ubuntu Unity and Debian are Linux distributions and operating system distributions bootable from read-only media.

See Ubuntu Unity and Debian

Desktop environment

In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell.

See Ubuntu Unity and Desktop environment

Evince

Evince, also known as GNOME Document Viewer, is a free and open-source document viewer supporting many document file formats including PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI.

See Ubuntu Unity and Evince

Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME is the former default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it had also been known as Image Viewer.

See Ubuntu Unity and Eye of GNOME

File manager

A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders.

See Ubuntu Unity and File manager

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

See Ubuntu Unity and Firefox

Flatpak

Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux.

See Ubuntu Unity and Flatpak

Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

See Ubuntu Unity and Forbes

Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.

See Ubuntu Unity and Fork (software development)

Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

See Ubuntu Unity and Free software

Full Circle (magazine)

Full Circle is a free distribution Portable Document Format magazine that was founded by Ronnie Tucker in April 2007.

See Ubuntu Unity and Full Circle (magazine)

Geary (e-mail client)

Geary is a free and open-source email client written in Vala and based on WebKitGTK.

See Ubuntu Unity and Geary (e-mail client)

Gedit

gedit is a text editor designed for the GNOME desktop environment.

See Ubuntu Unity and Gedit

GitLab

GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software.

See Ubuntu Unity and GitLab

GLib

GLib is a bundle of three (formerly five) low-level system libraries written in C and developed mainly by GNOME.

See Ubuntu Unity and GLib

GNOME

GNOME, originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME

GNOME 2

GNOME 2 is the second major release of the GNOME desktop environment. Ubuntu Unity and GNOME 2 are GNOME.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME 2

GNOME 3

GNOME 3 is the third major release of the GNOME desktop environment. Ubuntu Unity and GNOME 3 are GNOME.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME 3

GNOME Core Applications

The GNOME Core Applications are a software suite of approximately 30 software applications that are packaged as part of the standard free and open-source GNOME desktop environment.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Core Applications

GNOME Disks

GNOME Disks is a graphical front-end for udisks.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Disks

GNOME Display Manager

GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland. Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Display Manager are GNOME.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Display Manager

GNOME Files

GNOME Files, formerly and internally known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Files

GNOME Shell

GNOME Shell is the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3, which was released on April 6, 2011. Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell are GNOME.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell

GNOME Software

GNOME Software is a utility for installing applications and updates on Linux.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Software

GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Terminal

GNOME Videos

GNOME Videos, formerly known as Totem, is a media player (audio and video) for the GNOME computer desktop environment.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Videos

GNU Core Utilities

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNU Core Utilities

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNU General Public License

GNU GRUB

GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader, commonly referred to as GRUB) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project.

See Ubuntu Unity and GNU GRUB

GParted

GParted (acronym of GNOME Partition Editor) is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside Disks). Ubuntu Unity and GParted are operating system distributions bootable from read-only media.

See Ubuntu Unity and GParted

Idle (CPU)

A computer processor is described as idle when it is not being used by any program.

See Ubuntu Unity and Idle (CPU)

India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

See Ubuntu Unity and India

Launchpad (website)

Launchpad is a web application and website that allows users to develop and maintain software, particularly open-source software.

See Ubuntu Unity and Launchpad (website)

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF).

See Ubuntu Unity and LibreOffice

LightDM

LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop.

See Ubuntu Unity and LightDM

Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

See Ubuntu Unity and Linux

Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system. Ubuntu Unity and Linux distribution are Linux distributions.

See Ubuntu Unity and Linux distribution

Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.

See Ubuntu Unity and Linux kernel

List of Linux distributions

This page provides general information about notable Linux distributions in the form of a categorized list. Ubuntu Unity and list of Linux distributions are Linux distributions.

See Ubuntu Unity and List of Linux distributions

Long-term support

Long-term support (LTS) is a product lifecycle management policy in which a stable release of computer software is maintained for a longer period of time than the standard edition.

See Ubuntu Unity and Long-term support

Lubuntu

Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the LXQt desktop environment in place of GNOME. Ubuntu Unity and Lubuntu are Linux distributions, operating system distributions bootable from read-only media and Ubuntu derivatives.

See Ubuntu Unity and Lubuntu

MATE (desktop environment)

MATE is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems such as BSD, and illumos operating systems. Ubuntu Unity and MATE (desktop environment) are GNOME.

See Ubuntu Unity and MATE (desktop environment)

Medium (website)

Medium is an American online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012.

See Ubuntu Unity and Medium (website)

Monolithic kernel

A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture with the entire operating system running in kernel space.

See Ubuntu Unity and Monolithic kernel

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client software which also functions as a full personal information manager with a calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix), and news client.

See Ubuntu Unity and Mozilla Thunderbird

Nemo (file manager)

Nemo is a free and open-source software and official file manager of the Cinnamon desktop environment.

See Ubuntu Unity and Nemo (file manager)

Optical disc image

An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system.

See Ubuntu Unity and Optical disc image

Patch release

A patch release (often colloquially also known as a point release, dot release, or bugfix release) is a software release of a product or other project, especially one intended to fix bugs or do small cleanups rather than add significant features.

See Ubuntu Unity and Patch release

PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

See Ubuntu Unity and PDF

Phoronix Test Suite

Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems.

See Ubuntu Unity and Phoronix Test Suite

Pluma (text editor)

Pluma ("feather") is a fork of gedit 2 and the default text editor of the MATE desktop environment used in Linux distributions.

See Ubuntu Unity and Pluma (text editor)

Plymouth (software)

Plymouth is an application which provides a graphical boot experience for Linux.

See Ubuntu Unity and Plymouth (software)

PulseAudio

PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project.

See Ubuntu Unity and PulseAudio

Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

See Ubuntu Unity and Random-access memory

Remmina

Remmina is a free and open source remote desktop client for POSIX-based computer operating systems.

See Ubuntu Unity and Remmina

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is a free and open-source audio player software, tag editor and music organizer for digital audio files on Linux and Unix-like systems.

See Ubuntu Unity and Rhythmbox

Scanner Access Now Easy

Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) is an open-source application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame grabbers, etc.). The SANE API is public domain.

See Ubuntu Unity and Scanner Access Now Easy

Shotwell (software)

Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment.

See Ubuntu Unity and Shotwell (software)

Snap (software)

Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system.

See Ubuntu Unity and Snap (software)

Softpedia

Softpedia is a software and tech news website based in Romania.

See Ubuntu Unity and Softpedia

Software release life cycle

The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system).

See Ubuntu Unity and Software release life cycle

Splash screen

A splash screen is a graphical control element consisting of a window containing an image, a logo, and the current version of the software.

See Ubuntu Unity and Splash screen

Startup Disk Creator

Startup Disk Creator (USB-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image.

See Ubuntu Unity and Startup Disk Creator

Synaptic (software)

Synaptic is a GTK-based graphical user interface designed for the APT package manager used by the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives.

See Ubuntu Unity and Synaptic (software)

TechRepublic

TechRepublic is an online trade publication and social community for IT professionals, providing advice on best practices and tools for the needs of IT decision-makers.

See Ubuntu Unity and TechRepublic

Transmission (BitTorrent client)

Transmission is a BitTorrent client which features a variety of user interfaces on top of a cross-platform back-end.

See Ubuntu Unity and Transmission (BitTorrent client)

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu are Linux distributions and operating system distributions bootable from read-only media.

See Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu

Ubuntu Budgie

Ubuntu Budgie is an official community flavor of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu Budgie are Linux distributions and Ubuntu derivatives.

See Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu Budgie

Ubuntu GNOME

Ubuntu GNOME (formerly Ubuntu GNOME Remix) is a discontinued Linux distribution, distributed as free and open-source software. Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu GNOME are Linux distributions and operating system distributions bootable from read-only media.

See Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu GNOME

Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu Touch is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system, being developed by the UBports community. Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu Touch are Linux distributions and Ubuntu derivatives.

See Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu version history

Ubuntu releases are made semiannually by Canonical Ltd, its developers, using the year and month of the release as a version number.

See Ubuntu Unity and Ubuntu version history

UEFI

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, or as an acronym) is a specification that defines the architecture of the platform firmware used for booting the computer hardware and its interface for interaction with the operating system.

See Ubuntu Unity and UEFI

Unity (user interface)

Unity is a graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment originally developed by Canonical Ltd. for its Ubuntu operating system.

See Ubuntu Unity and Unity (user interface)

Unix-like

A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.

See Ubuntu Unity and Unix-like

VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.

See Ubuntu Unity and VLC media player

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Unity

Also known as Ubuntu Unity 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu Unity 20.10, Ubuntu Unity 21.04, Ubuntu Unity 21.10, Ubuntu Unity 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu Unity 22.10, Ubuntu Unity Remix, Unubuntu.

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