How-to Run Unity in VirtualBox

Published in April 30th, 2011

Posted by Tom in tips

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Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment requires 3D acceleration to run. If you don’t have a compatible graphics card or don’t have the drivers installed, Unity will fall back to the classic interface. Fortunately the free VirtualBox virtual machine software is capable of providing the necessary 3D acceleration to a virtual Ubuntu desktop, provided of course that [...]

Ubuntu 11.04 Released

Published in April 29th, 2011

Posted by Tom in nattynarwhal, ubuntunews

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Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” has been released. The introduction of the Unity desktop environment is a huge change in this release. Other changes include Firefox being updated to version 4, the Banshee media player replacing Rhythmbox, and improvements to the Software Center. Check out the release notes for more details. More about Unity The what’s [...]