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Ubuntu Unity Project Faces Uncertain Future
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Probably more Ubuntu enthusiasts have noticed that Unity, the official Ubuntu flavor that brings back the once-beloved Unity desktop for the first time since gaining official status, has failed to deliver a 25.10 release. Well, there’s a reason for that, and now its maintainers are publicly asking for help.
In a post published yesterday, one of the Ubuntu Unity team members explained that project lead Rudra Saraswat, who’s been at the center of development since the remix’s early days, no longer has time to maintain the project due to university studies.
Combined with the temporary absence of other contributors, this has left the team without the manpower needed to test, fix, and ship new ISOs. “Unity is broken and needs to be fixed,” the statement bluntly admits, describing critical bugs that prevent both fresh installs and upgrades from Ubuntu 25.04 to 25.10.
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Ubuntu Unity Maintainers Sound the Alarm, Official Flavor Needs Help!
Ubuntu Unity has seen its fair share of ups and downs since its inception. The project first launched in May 2020 as an unofficial remix, bringing back the Unity7 desktop after Canonical discontinued it in 2017.
Created by Rudra Saraswat, Ubuntu Unity was born from community nostalgia for the Unity interface. The project quickly gained traction among users who missed the macOS-like desktop with its global menu bar and dock.
In October 2022, Ubuntu Unity achieved a major milestone. It became an official Ubuntu flavor starting with the 22.10 release, joining the ranks of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu.
The project has weathered challenges before, but the current situation sounds more concerning seeing that development has basically stopped due to maintainer unavailability.
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Ubuntu Unity faces possible shutdown as team member cries for help
Ubuntu Unity, the community-led project that revived the Unity7 desktop, is experiencing a bit of a crisis, leading its team to ask the public for help after admitting that the flavor is "broken and needs to be fixed."
In a message posted on Ubuntu's discourse page, Maik Adamietz, the Community moderator and administrator who has been with the project since 2020, explained that the project lead, Rudra B. Rudra, has had less time to dedicate to the work recently. As a result, the team could not ship a stable 25.10 release this October.