A great day for Ubuntu friends, as Canonical has just released the final version of the Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak operating system for desktop, server, and cloud computing.
Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) has been in development for the past six months, but today, October 13, 2016, it is now officially available for download in its repositories companys. New functional comes for everyone who wants to use the latest versions and technologies of software and GNU/Linux on their personal computers, or in the cloud.
The most exciting feature of the new Ubuntu 16.10 is the Linux kernel 4.8, which brings support for the latest hardware that is being released, but it also contains some up-to-date data that is mostly based on GNOME 3.20 Stack.
So some of the pre-installed applications are based on the latest GNOME 3.22 Stack, except for the Nautilus file manager, which remains at version 3.20.3. The LibreOffice suite comes in version 5.2 and Mozilla Firefox in the 49.0 version.
Also, the new Ubuntu 16.10 comes with an experimental Unity 8 Session, which is pre-installedchoice and is accessible through the login manager. Canonical added Unity 8 mostly for testing purposes, although they know it won't work on all PCs.
Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak will be supported for nine months, by July of 2017, the end date of the distribution. From this date on, it will no longer receive software and security updates, which means you will need to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu, or use the stable version of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus.
Ubuntu hardliners can download the new Ubuntu 16.10 with Linux kernel 4.8 in Desktop, Server and Cloud versions by the end of the post.
Select the ISO you are interested in:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.10/