On the last day of August, the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system entered Beta stages of development, but only for some of the official flavors, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Budgie.
Ubuntu itself will be available for public beta testing at the end of the month, on September 28, when the Final Beta development milestone is expected to launch for all Ubuntu flavors. Until then, let’s have a look at the new features introduced by the Beta 1 release for the opt-in flavors.
Designed to be a “Breeze” for your PC, Kubuntu 17.10 Beta 1 ships with the latest KDE Plasma 5.10.5 desktop environment, KDE Applications 17.04.3 software suite, and KDE Frameworks 5.37.0 by default, offering users a powerful operating system. It features VLC Media Player instead of KDE’s Dragon Player.
Furthermore, the KTorrent BitTorrent client was upgraded to the 5.1 series, the Qt5-based Cantata music player repl… (read more)
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