Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released

Posted by msmash on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:43PM from the it's-here dept.

Canonical has made available the download links for Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark". It comes with a range of new features, changes, and improvements including GNOME as the default desktop, Wayland display server by default, Optional X.org server session, Mesa 17.2 or Mesa 17.3, Linux kernel 4.13 or kernel 4.14, new Subiquity server installer, improved hardware support, new Ubuntu Server installer, switch to libinput, an always visible dock using Dash to Dock GNOME Shell extension, and Bluetooth improvements with a new BlueZ among others.

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Re:Another great name, like Gimpy Goatfucker by leonbev · 2017-10-19 00:32 · Score: 2, Insightful

Is anyone seriously competing to gain desktop OS marketshare from Microsoft and Apple at this point, though? Last I heard, all of the Linux distributions combined make up less than 3% of desktop OS installs for the past few years.
At this point, it's more about refining the server side features and keeping the few diehards that use Linux as a desktop OS happy.