Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety yak release schedule

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has just arrived to govern our teams and we are already starting to receive news from its successor Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, that if nothing happens it will arrive in half a year and should include quite interesting news, probably Unity 8 and Mir that are the axis central convergence.

New details on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak and its calendar

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak will be a standard version so it will only be maintained for 9 months, remember that LTS versions that offer 5-year support are recommended for ordinary users and are the ones that we can consider the true stable versions of Ubuntu.

The great novelties of Ubuntu 16.10 'Yakkety Yak would be Unity 8 and Mir along with a further evolution of Snappy. Canonical is making a great effort to attract the masses to Ubuntu and two fundamental pillars for this are the desired convergence and a greater ease of installing applications on the system. All these developments will be polished in successive versions of Ubuntu until the arrival of the next version 18.04 LTS in two years.

The release schedule for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak is as follows:

• Alpha 1 - June 30 Alpha 2 - July 28 Beta 1 - August 25 Final Beta - September 22 Release Candidate - October 13 Ubuntu 16.10 Final - October 20

Canonical has a very tough task ahead if they want to make Ubuntu an operating system for the masses, but if anyone has shown that they can make a "Linux for humans" they are themselves.

Source: omgubuntu