Ubuntu 16.10 is already in the freezing phase, the day 13 arrives

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak is closer than ever after its development has reached the freezing phase, this means that no more features will be added and there will be no more changes as the development team is going to focus from now until its arrival official in solving all the errors that are possible in order to achieve a launch as perfect as possible.

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak arrives in less than a week

As Adam Conrad has announced, freezing is the last step in the development of a distribution and its objective is to ensure that the product presents the highest quality in view of the release of its stable version that will take place on October 13. From now on, only very important packages will be accepted in order to solve very serious errors in your repository system, the most common are security problems.

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak will arrive in its final version on Thursday October 13, some of the most important news will be the inclusion of the Kernel Linux 4.8 that has been released recently and the possibility of using the new Unity 8 graphical environment with the window manager Mir. Recall that Unity 8 will come installed as standard but it will not be the default graphical environment since this honor will continue to be enjoyed by the current Unity 7, which is much more refined and ready for daily use.

Many of our readers will be eager to try Ubuntu 16.10 and Unity 8 but we remind you that the new desktop environment is still very green and it is likely that it will not work properly on your computers. If you decide to try it we recommend that you do not do it in your usual work team, for this much better the more stable Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.