Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Beta 1 has just been released

The Ubuntu development team announced today the availability of the first beta versionof the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver series, but only for the opt-in flavors.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) has been in development for a while, mainly because of the Meltdown and Specter security holes. But today the flavors were released Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu Kylin for the Chinese Friends of the Canonical operating system.

Lubuntu and Ubuntu Studio flavors are not available on this beta, but we hope to see them next month, 5 April, when a Ubuntu development team will announce the Final Beta.

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As for the new ones functions, the Kubuntu 18.04 LTS Beta has the latest, KDE Plasma 5.12 desktop environment LTS by default, along with KDE 17.12.2 applications, as well as other up-to-date applications.

The Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS Beta seems to have quite a few improvements and new ones possibilities, including better font editing features for Korean and Chinese languages, emoji color support, better shortcuts, new default Budgie applets, and a whole new GTK+ theme.

On the other hand, the Xubuntu 18.04 LTS Beta comes without the GTK theme configuration tool, but with updated Greybird GTK + theme, addition of Xfce PulseAudio, add-on for status notifications, Atrial document viewer, Engrampa archive manager, MATE Calculator and new default Wallpaper.

All of these versions run with the latest Linux 4.15 kernel. The same Kernel will also run the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) when it launches next month on April 26.

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