Ubuntu Cinnamon is confirmed as the official flavor. First installment, the Lunar Lobster beta

Ubuntu Cinnamon is official flavor

As we already anticipated at the end of January, more specifically did my partner Diego, Ubuntu Cinnamon It is already officially an official flavor of Ubuntu, worth the redundancy. Two months ago they had already welcomed him, but semi-internally. At that time, neither the project leader nor any of his collaborators said anything by any means, and they have waited until this week to break the news, which makes sense.

The Ubuntu Unity leader did much the same. If my memory serves me correctly, Sudra did say something as soon as he found out, but the official statement came just days away from launching the Kinetic Kudu family beta. Lunar Lobster will arrive on April 20, and in a few days, in fact they are already uploading images and doing the pertinent tests, it will be possible to test the Ubuntu 23.04 beta, at which time Ubuntu Cinnamon, now 100% complete, will be a official flavor. The difference between that moment and the announcement of his arrival, like two months ago with the less public message, is that his beta is already It will appear in the Ubuntu cdimage.

Ubuntu Cinnamon had been as "Remix" for 4 years

almost 4 years ago desde que Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix empezó a dar sus primeros pasos. Recuerdo que después del verano de 2019 encontré algo en Twitter sobre Ubuntu Cinnamon, y me di un paseo por todo su Timeline para enterarme bien de todo. Era eso, un nuevo «Remix», la coletilla que llevan todas las distribuciones basadas en Ubuntu que quieren llegar a formar parte del equipo oficial. Lo recuerdo bien, porque además pasó algo que no me gustó nada: aquel post fue copiado, traducido y pegado en un medio brasileño (un saludo si me leen), y Joshua Peisach les felicitó y agradeció la difusión a ellos. Luego se me acusó a mí de plagio, porque un retardo en la publicación en redes hacía parecer que mi artículo había sido el que plagiaba.

It is not bad to base/be inspired by the information of others, but the copy/paste, if it is not from official sources, is to make them look at it. It is one thing to find out about a piece of news through another means and go to the official source, and the other is to make yours the content created by another without citing sources.

But that is part of the past, and there it should remain. The present is that Ubuntu Cinnamon has managed to be part of the official team. It was the first to appear from a list, let's say, medium in which Ubuntu Unity was also included and there are Ubuntu Web, UbuntuEd (the three previous ones from the same developer), UbuntuDDE and Ubuntu Sway, I don't know if I missed any. In addition, a resurrection is expected, that of Edubuntu that could return from the hand of the leader of the Ubuntu Studio project and his wife, who would be the official leader, or at least in the offices.

Competition for Linux Mint?

About the flavor itself, you have to know that the relationship between Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu and Cinnamon will be similar to that of Kubuntu, Ubuntu and KDE neon. KDE neon is based on Ubuntu, but the desktop is created by KDE and uploaded first to the operating system it controls the most. Kubuntu is also from KDE, but is under the Canonical umbrella, and doesn't update Plasma until they change versions, unless their Backports repository is added. In a similar way, Ubuntu Cinnamon is now part of Ubuntu, but it hasn't come to compete directly with Linux Mint, also based on Ubuntu. The main flavor of "mint" linux is Cinnamon, and it has every preference. Also, Linux Mint is not required to do anything Canonical says, and in fact undoes many of the controversial changes that Mark Shuttleworth's company forces it to introduce.

As for deadlines, Ubuntu comes out in April and October, and Linux Mint around June and December. The new versions of Mint include a new version of Cinnamon, while the official Canonical flavor comes with a Cinamon that was released 4-5 months earlier.

Personally, and although I welcome Ubuntu Cinnamon, I think I will never use it. If I use Ubuntu, I go for the main edition (GNOME) or Kubuntu, and if I want Cinnamon + Ubuntu, Linux Mint appeals to me more. Now, if Canonical has decided to accept a new component in the family, it is because it meets its quality requirements, which is another way of saying that Ubuntu Cinnamon has a great company behind it. As is always said in these cases, in the end the decision is ours.


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