Bèta 1 is out for some *buntu 18.04 flavours!

[Pjotr]

Some flavours of *buntu, have released bèta 1 of 18.04 Bionic Beaver today!

Nice stuff. Get your hands on it here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/mile ... 387/builds

Click on the flavour you want, and then on: "Link to the download information".

Happy testing.

Note: the devs will be particularly happy if you report any bugs you find, on the qatracker. It's always a struggle for the devs of the smaller flavours, to find enough testers and bug reporters in this stage of development....

[rickNS]

Xubuntu 18 has been out for a couple of months. I tried it briefly.

[Pjotr]

Xubuntu 18 has been out for a couple of months.

No it hasn't.... It'll be released in April, together with Ubuntu.

So far, there have only been daily builds and alpha's:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule

This first bèta is already very close to the final thing, as both Feature Freeze and Debian Import Freeze are already in force....

[rickNS]

Don't want to argue I know you are very smart, but this video is dated Jan 1st,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAkibIpOeHU
and I did have it installed myself, no dream.
EDIT; Yes it was a "daily build"

[aes2011]

And some flavours are keen to get people with 32-bit machines to test the 32-bit versions on bare metal. Apparently, they're getting v.little feedback from that segment. For Kubuntu: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubun ... 11585.html

[exploder]

Running Ubuntu itself on two machines that previously were not supported. GDM still has some issues occasionally and last week there was some breakage with AMD graphics. It is coming along though and I am sure it will be in great shape by the April 26th release date.

[Hoser Rob]

Don't want to argue I know you are very smart, but this video is dated Jan 1st,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAkibIpOeHU
and I did have it installed myself, no dream.
EDIT; Yes it was a "daily build"

You're confusing releases. That one was the Apha 1 RC. This is the beta.

And there's a difference. IMO you just have to be somewhat nuts to install a beta OS release if you're somewhat less than expert. You'd have to be completely nuts to install an alpha.

Not saying the less than pro users shouldn't do this, just do it on a spare computer you don't need.

And develop some CLI recovery chops first. It's almost guaranteed to break at some point after an update. Not the usual nice polite Linux crash either. And you'll get a lot of updates.

[JosephM]

Note: the devs will be particularly happy if you report any bugs you find, on the qatracker. It's always a struggle for the devs of the smaller flavours, to find enough testers and bug reporters in this stage of development....

Please do this. Not only do you make Ubuntu better, you also help make derivates like upcoming Mint19 better.

GDM still has some issues occasionally and last week there was some breakage with AMD graphics

It wasn't just AMD graphics. It broke graphics in general. Both myself and another of the Mint devs, one on intel and one on Nvidia, got bit by this. To the credit of the devs they identified this issue and pushed out a fix the same day.

[exploder]

Wayland has really come a long way since the last time I tried it! Aside from a couple quirks it is very usable now.

[JosephM]

Wayland has really come a long way since the last time I tried it! Aside from a couple quirks it is very usable now.

It's certainly gotten better. I tried it for awhile but still was running into weird issues like sometimes not being able to select a window. Some HiDPI issues. And of course it not working at all with Nvidia which is the biggest issue.