Final beta of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available for download

Canonical today announced the immediate availability of the final beta of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver , along with the second beta for official distributions.

While almost all official Ubuntu distributions participated in last month's beta, this is the first public beta of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS that all users can download and install on their personal computers while they wait for the official launch to take place. next month.

Ubuntu 18.04 is Canonical's seventh extended support (LTS) release, and comes to us with many news from the community, including new themes, Xorg server replacing Wayland, which is used in Ubuntu 17.10.

As expected, GNOME 3.28 is the default environment, although some components will not be able to be updated, for example, the Nautilus file manager that in its recent versions does not support the handling of icons on the desktop.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, powered by Linux Kernel 4.15

At the heart of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS we have Linux Kernel 4.15, which already includes patches for Meltdown and Specter. Many utilities will arrive in Snap format such as the system monitor, calculator, characters and logs.

Among other things, you can switch between the different Snap channels in Ubuntu Software. Ubuntu 18.04 users will be able to use the Synaptics driver in the Settings application even though libinput is the default driver for mice and touchpads, and the right click has been changed to two finger click.

You can download right now the final beta (also called Developer Beta) of Ubuntu 18.04 as well as the betas for other official distributions (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, among others) from the respective official pages, although do not expect many changes between the first beta and the final beta of the official distributions. The final version of Ubuntu 18.04 is expected to arrive later this month, specifically on April 26..