You Can Now Install and Test Unity 8 and Mir in Any Supported Ubuntu OS

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Canonical has made it possible to install and test the latest Unity 8 desktop environment on any Ubuntu system just by adding a PPA and installing the appropriate packages.

Currently, the only two ways of testing the latest Ubuntu Next version with Mir and Unity 8 were to download the ISO and do a Live boot or to run in a VMWare. Or so we thought. None of the solutions mentioned is too appealing, but there is a third way, much more elegant, and it works on any supported Ubu… (read more)