Mate 1.16 now available for ubuntu mate 16.10

The arrival of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak in all its flavors is scheduled for next Thursday, October 12. A new non-LTS version with support for 9 months and that will serve to test all the new technologies and new advances along with the upcoming versions and face the arrival of the new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in a year and a half. The Ubuntu Mate 16.10 development team has confirmed that it will arrive with the latest version of the popular environment, Mate 1.16.

Ubuntu Mate 16.10 confirmed to include Mate 1.16 with GTK3

Few users expected Mate 1.16 to be present in Ubuntu Mate 16.10, but finally it will be available to offer all users an environment developed in GTK 3 and more adapted to the current times when GTK2 + already shows its symptoms of exhaustion. Of course Mate 1.16 will not be the only important novelty since Ubuntu Mate 16.10 will include the Kernel Linux 4.8 for better performance and maximum compatibility with the latest hardware.

Another good news is that Mate's development team is working to make Mate 1.16 available for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, the current LTS version of Canonical's operating system and which is therefore recommended to the majority of users for being much more stable. than the standard versions, remember that a new LTS version is released every two years and the next will be Ubuntu 18.04 in April 2018. Unfortunately the Mate 1.16 environment for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus will still be based on GTK2 +.