Effective immediately, the new release of Ubuntu, 17.10, aka 'Artful Aardvark' has been released!
This release will be supported for 9 months (until 2018) for Long Term Support, stick with release 16.04, instead.
Official flavors (e.g. Kubuntu) are also released.
See the above release notes for a full list of changes and where you can get a copy.
[Full disclosure: the majority of SoylentNews' servers run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS though we have taken steps towards moving to Gentoo.]
Also:
The customized version of GNOME that Ubuntu 17.10 uses is very much in the mould of the (now defunct) Unity desktop, so it won't be to everyone's tastes.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday October 22 2017, @10:45AM
It was auto-magical: everything worked out of the box for me. No messing with config files, was pretty.
Basically, the Ubuntu of back then.
It was scary enough for MS to shut it down.
Just....memories, basically. Great memories. And Canadian!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---