What's the latest, stable version of Ubuntu that doesn't use Unity?

Question

I'm looking for the latest, stable version of Ubuntu that uses Gnome 2. As much as I understand, newest, stable version - 11.04 - is using Unity... and that's new desktop environment.

Is Unity a Desktop Environment? helped a lot.

Answer 1

Ubuntu 11.04 is the latest version that uses Gnome 2 (Although this isn't exactly what you want, as you actually are talking about gnome-panel, which 11.04 uses Unity)

Ubuntu 10.10 is the latest version that uses gnome-panel by default, but this version is only supported until April 2012

Ubuntu 10.04.2 is the latest LTS release that uses gnome-panel, which is supported until April 2013 (for the Desktop) and April 2015 (for the server)

Answer 2

Ubuntu 11.04 does use Unity by default, but you can change back to Gnome 2/gnome-panel by choosing the Ubuntu Classic Session option in the login screen.

Answer 3

You can have the classic look by doing this:

• How do I switch to the Classic GNOME Desktop?

Answer 4

Ubuntu 10.10 use gnome 2 standard in ubuntu 11.04 you can still switch to claccis.

Answer 5

Most stable version of Ubuntu is not an Ubuntu release, but a derivative called ZorinOS http://zorin-os.com/ it has been tweaked to work and work well, I use it in work with no issues.

Stay away from Unity, unstable and easily broken. Ubuntu 12.04LTS is very unstable and is not ready for production machines.

Some will disagree, some will agree, but I can only tell you from personal experience.

Thanks