Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Beta

Adam Conrad has announced the release of the first beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, codenamed "Cosmic Cuttlefish". The first beta is available to anyone who wants to try out Canonical's upcoming operating system.

The flavors are Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu:

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 18.10 Desktop, Server and Cloud products.

Following is the standard release of the release as posted in the ubuntu-announce mailing list.
Ubuntu 18.10 beta brings recent GNU / Linux applications. It uses the latest Linux 4.18, the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment, and has up-to-date applications (Firefox 62.0 and LibreOffice 6.1).

Release notes are short, they do not contain many details, but they record a well-known topic:

Booting live images to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox can fail in some flavors and in some versions of VirtualBox. If the live session fails to start you will need to activate the "nomodeset" via the initial start menu.

Download the first beta of the flavor you are interested in:

•  ubuntu-18.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso (1,937MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites),
• kubuntu-18.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso (1,856MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites, releasenotes),
• lubuntu-18.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso (1,569MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites, release announcement),
• ubuntu-budgie-18.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso (1,621MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites, release announcement), ubuntukylin-18.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso (1,757MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites, releasenotes),
• ubuntu-mate-18.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso (2,016MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites, release announcement), ubuntustudio-18.10-beta-dvd-amd64.iso (3,012MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites, release announcement),
• xubuntu-18.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso (1,450MB, SHA256, signature, torrent sites).

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