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| From: | Adam Conrad <adconrad-AT-ubuntu.com> | |
| To: | ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Subject: | Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released | |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:08:46 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20171019130846.GE21230@0c3.net> | |
| Cc: | ubuntu-release-AT-lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Archive-link: | Article |
Codenamed "Artful Aardvark", Ubuntu 17.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technology into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. As always, the team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.13-based kernel, glibc 2.26, gcc 7.2, and much more. Ubuntu Desktop has had a major overhaul, with the switch from Unity as our default desktop to GNOME3 and gnome-shell. Along with that, there are the usual incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, and updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice. Ubuntu Server 17.10 includes the Pike release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86, ARM, or POWER servers, z System mainframes, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to juju, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features. The newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details can be found for these at their individual release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseNotes#Offic... Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 17.10. To get Ubuntu 17.10 ------------------- In order to download Ubuntu 17.10, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/download Users of Ubuntu 17.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 17.10. For further information about upgrading, see: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseNotes Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places: #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users http://www.ubuntuforums.org http://askubuntu.com Help Shape Ubuntu ----------------- If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute About Ubuntu ------------ Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, netbooks and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away. Professional services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/support More Information ---------------- You can learn more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website listed below: http://www.ubuntu.com To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-announce@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released
Posted Oct 19, 2017 19:25 UTC (Thu) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link]
Specifically,
1. By default, Ubuntu 17.10 runs GNOME Shell with the Ubuntu modifications.
2. There is an option to run the GUI with either Wayland or X.Org. To be selected while you log in.
3. The full options include: GNOME Shell with Ubuntu modifications, GNOME Shell vanilla and Unity, all with either Wayland or X.Org (well, Unity does not do Wayland). To be selected while you log in.
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released
Posted Oct 20, 2017 15:13 UTC (Fri) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link]
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released
Posted Oct 19, 2017 23:26 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released
Posted Oct 20, 2017 2:32 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released
Posted Oct 20, 2017 2:41 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Nice! I like it. The new GNOME theme preserves all the things I liked in Unity: united menu bar, hidden title bar, sane desktop management. Oh, and they moved window controls to the right - it's a small thing, but it always bothered me (even though I also use Mac OS X).
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