The currently offered daily builds of the upcoming Ubuntu version 17.10 have now removed Canonicals Unity desktop and installed the Gnome desktop by default.
Below you can download the latest Ubuntu 17.10 daily build from the official Ubuntu server.
In the login window, there is only the Gnome desktop based on Wayland. Unity 7 can be installed later from the software sources, including lots of additional packages to it.
When updating Ubuntu 17.04 with the command line command do-release-upgrade -d, however, Unity has been preserved. Whether this remains so at the planned publication date of Ubuntu 17.10 on 13 October 2017, During the upgrade, only the Unity 8 package is removed. This version was still in the development phase and was based on the display server Mir developed by Canonical itself, which is also removed.
In the daily builds, a daily ISO snapshot of the current development level of the next Ubuntu version is generated. The current Gnome desktop 3.24 of Ubuntu resembles the original except for the Ubuntu's own background image and the shopping lens to Amazon, which is always installed Ubuntu 12.10. Until the appearance date can change one or the other.
Canonical had announced in early April, the work on the converged Ubuntu desktop Unity 8 finally terminate and Ubuntu version 18.04 LTS with Gnome instead of Unity deliver. Apparently Canonical but already in 17.10 on Unity 7 waive. But since Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity 7 as LTS version up to 2021 will be supplied with updates, the Unity desktop should be at least still supported.
Getting Ubuntu 17.10 Daily builds
Below you can download the latest Ubuntu 17.10 daily build from the official Ubuntu server.
Note: Ubuntu daily builds are for testing purposes and should not be installed by anyone that looking for a stable experience.
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