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Ubuntu 17.10 Released

posted by mrpg on Saturday October 21 2017, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
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martyb writes:

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.

OMGUbuntu

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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Sunday October 22 2017, @01:30PM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Sunday October 22 2017, @01:30PM (#585946)

    This simply isn't true. I'm sitting here on a fresh install of 17.10 and the default installation includes X:

    root@skynet:~# lsb_release -a
    No LSB modules are available.
    Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
    Description:    Ubuntu 17.10
    Release:    17.10
    Codename:    artful
    root@skynet:~# dpkg -l | grep -i xserver
    ii  x11-xserver-utils                          7.7+7build1                                 amd64        X server utilities
    ii  xserver-common                             2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2                           all          common files used by various X servers
    ii  xserver-xephyr                             2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2                           amd64        nested X server
    ii  xserver-xorg                               1:7.7+19ubuntu3                             amd64        X.Org X server
    ii  xserver-xorg-core                          2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2                           amd64        Xorg X server - core server
    ii  xserver-xorg-input-all                     1:7.7+19ubuntu3                             amd64        X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
    ii  xserver-xorg-input-libinput                0.25.0-0ubuntu1                             amd64        X.Org X server -- libinput input driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom                   1:0.34.0-0ubuntu2                           amd64        X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-legacy                        2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2                           amd64        setuid root Xorg server wrapper
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-all                     1:7.7+19ubuntu3                             amd64        X.Org X server -- output driver metapackage
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu                  1.4.0-1                                     amd64        X.Org X server -- AMDGPU display driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati                     1:7.10.0-1                                  amd64        X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver wrapper
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev                   1:0.4.4-1build6                             amd64        X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel                   2:2.99.917+git20170309-0ubuntu1             amd64        X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau                 1:1.0.15-2                                  amd64        X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-qxl                     0.1.5-2build1                               amd64        X.Org X server -- QXL display driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon                  1:7.10.0-1                                  amd64        X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa                    1:2.3.4-1build3                             amd64        X.Org X server -- VESA display driver
    ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware                  1:13.2.1-1build1                            amd64        X.Org X server -- VMware display driver

    It even has to option to start the default desktop environment with X right from the login manager if you prefer.

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