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Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Final Beta released

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The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu

16.10 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products.

 

Codenamed "Yakkety Yak", 16.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition

of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a

high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at

work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

 

This beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop,

Server, and Cloud products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu,

Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, and Ubuntu Studio

flavours.

 

The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build

or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 16.10

that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the

final release expected on October 13th, 2016.

 

Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Cloud Images:

Yakkety Final Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of

packages, including a current 4.8 kernel, and much more.

 

To upgrade to Ubuntu 16.10 Final Beta from Ubuntu 16.04, follow these

instructions:

 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/YakketyUpgrades

 

The Ubuntu 16.10 Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

 

http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.10/ (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server)

 

Additional images can be found at the following links:

 

http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/yakkety/current/ (Cloud Images)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.10/beta-2/ (Community Supported)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/16.10/ (Netboot)

 

As fixes will be included in new images between now and release, any daily

cloud image from today or later (i.e. a serial of 20160927 or higher)

should be considered a beta image. Bugs should be filed against the

appropriate packages or, failing that, the cloud-images project in

Launchpad.

 

The full release notes for Ubuntu 16.10 Final Beta can be found at:

 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes

 

Kubuntu:

Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop

and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.

 

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/16.10/beta-2/

 

More information on Kubuntu Final Beta can be found here:

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/YakketyYak/Beta2/Kubuntu

 

Lubuntu:

Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that targets to be lighter, less

resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight

applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment,

as its default GUI.

 

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.10/beta-2/

 

More information on Lubuntu Final Beta can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/Beta2/Lubuntu

 

Ubuntu GNOME:

Ubuntu GNOME is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop

environment.

 

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/16.10/beta-2/

 

More information on Ubuntu GNOME Final Beta can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/Beta2/UbuntuGNOME

 

UbuntuKylin:

UbuntuKylin is a flavor of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese

users.

 

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/16.10/beta-2/

 

Ubuntu MATE:

Ubuntu MATE is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the MATE desktop

environment.

 

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/16.10/beta-2/

 

More information on UbuntuMATE Final Beta can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/Beta2/UbuntuMATE

 

Ubuntu Studio:

Ubuntu Studio is a flavor of Ubuntu that provides a full range of

multimedia content creation applications for each key workflows:

audio, graphics, video, photography and publishing.

 

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/16.10/beta-2/

 

More information about Ubuntu Studio Final Beta can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/Beta2/UbuntuStudio

 

Regular daily images for Ubuntu, and all flavours, can be found at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com

 

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for clients, servers and

clouds, 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 technical support is available from Canonical Limited and

hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information

about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support

 

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways

you can participate at: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

 

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to

improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be

found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

 

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this beta release on our

website, IRC channel and wiki.

 

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

 

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