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Unity8 is as dead as Ubuntu Phone (if you don't count community forks). Gnome is the future of Ubuntu, there will be no Mir, there will be no Unity8.



As I said, Mir has a fresh release in this release, and continued development. If it's dead in the water... You might want to go tell the team.


Mir is still used for some of Canonical's IoT products. Since Canonical has paying customers, it's worthwhile to continue maintaining it.


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/?field.tag=unity8-desktop&...

They look like they have only had half a dozen bugs lodged in the last six months. Doesn't seem too vibrant for an actively-developed desktop.


https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bugs?orderby=-date_last_upda...

Mir on the other hand, looks quite active.




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