Install the updated Unity 8 and Mir on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Terminal commands to install Unity 8 Desktop and Mir on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 & Derivatives.
The Unity 8 and Mir have received various fixes and new improvements. Canonical has made it possible to install and test the latest Unity 8 desktop environment on any Ubuntu system. The Unity 8 can be installed via PPA.
The Unity 8 Desktop is used on Ubuntu Touch and Ubuntu Desktop Next. Luckily, you can install and test Unity 8 and Mir on Ubuntu, via PPA.
Below is the list of improvements and fixes [via Kevin Gunn]
Improvements For Unity 8
- Spent some time on profiling continuing efforts with some tools we obtained from one of our hw partners
- Scope multimedia playback ready to go, just in the landing queue
- Continued working on social media features for scopes
- Continued working on life cycle for visibility, completed reviews now under test
- Completed one launcher feature parity item, quit on tooltip work continues for wiggling on notification & download animation
- Slim greeter work for integrating with liblightdm (step towards multiuser)
- Switcher iteration work towards desktop continues, also implementing phase 1
- Work continuing on new ubuntu shape in scope cards & new icon shapes
- Battled shell rotation landing, got bit by some dependency and ci-train having a wreck….but QA is testing over the weekend
Improvements For Mir
- Continued on buffer semantic changes (that will help nested bypass), have multibuffer stream exposed out to client, now working on the server to client direction
- Also work on dynamic double buffering (to move in and out of triple)
- Continued work on detecting hung client applications as a helper for shells
- Coordinating with upstream on input changes we proposed
- Still working through qtubuntu updates against mir for things like menu support
- Released an updated glmark2 package
- Mir-on-X pieces continue to get reviewed and land
- Still working on getting end-to-end input-to-render test instituted as part of the mir project CI
- Working on security stuff for mir snap
Terminal commands to install and test Unity 8 and Mir on Linux Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:unity8-desktop-session-team/unity8-preview-lxc
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install unity8-lxc
$ sudo unity8-lxc-setup