Adam Conrad has announced the availability of the first beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, codenamed “Cosmic Cuttlefish”. The first beta is available for everyone who wants to try the upcoming functional Canonical system.
The flavors that are circulating 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).
The notes version are short, do not contain much detail, but capture a familiar theme:
The booting of live images for the installation of Ubuntu in VirtualBox may fail in some flavors and versions of VirtualBox. If the live session fails to start, you should enable “nomodeset” through the initial boot 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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