Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” Beta Test Drive

Jonathan MathewsPublic

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It has been a while since Canonical has launched Ubuntu 17.10 daily builds but most users don’t want to switch to the latest builds as they are still in daily build period. Ubuntu 17.10 daily builds were quite unstable and many things were broken and as the first beta has released on Aug 31, I  got my hands on it and tried it. Using it since then many things have been fixed. So in this article, I’m going to share my experience with Ubuntu 17.10 beta.

Below is the announcement by Canonical –

​The first beta of the Artful Aardvark (to become 17.10) has now been released!

This milestone features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu.

Pre-releases of the Artful Aardvark are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavor developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready… Complete announcement here.