{"id":7151,"date":"2019-01-04T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2019-01-08T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T11:57:00","slug":"back-on-the-block-linux-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/01\/04\/back-on-the-block-linux-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the Block \u00bb Linux Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Linux gets back to basics with the Ubuntu 18.10 release \u2013 an appealing and practical distro that isn&#8217;t worried about conquering the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu is back. The same Ubuntu that I loved back in 2011 before Unity and Gnome 3 happened. Both were great projects, but they broke my workflow, so I moved to openSUSE and Arch Linux with the Plasma desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Much water has flowed under the bridge since then. Canonical&#8217;s dream of taking over Microsoft (Windows), Google (Android), and Apple (iOS) didn&#8217;t materialize, and they decided to reduce their focus on the consumer space.<\/p>\n<p>What was supposed to be bad news for Canonical turned out to be good news for open source communities, because Canonical shut down its in-house projects and returned those projects upstream. The controversial Unity desktop went away, and Gnome resumed the throne of being the default desktop environment and shell for the world&#8217;s most popular Linux distribution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-magazine.com\/Issues\/2019\/219\/Ubuntu-18.10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Linux gets back to basics with the Ubuntu 18.10 release \u2013 an appealing and practical distro that isn&#8217;t worried about conquering the world. Ubuntu is back. The same Ubuntu that I loved back in 2011 before Unity and Gnome 3 happened. Both were great projects, but they broke my workflow, so I moved to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/01\/04\/back-on-the-block-linux-magazine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back on the Block \u00bb Linux Magazine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7483,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}