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# Blog posts tagged "Artful Aardvark"

#### [Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-update-2-february-2018)

GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an option at login. You can read more about that here. The Ubuntu Dock extension has been rebased on the latest upstream master and we’ve added some

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#### [Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-weekly-update-december-1-2017)

GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit messy, so we have proposed a fix upstream and this should be merged soon. Theme The community theme topic has been very busy on the hub. Yesterday we

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#### [Kernel Team Summary: November 7, 2017](https://canonical.com/blog/kernel-team-summary-november-7-2017)

October 24 through November 06 Development (18.04) Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality

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#### [Kernel Team Summary – October 18th, 2017](https://canonical.com/blog/kernel-team-summary-october-18th-2017)

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Ubuntu 17.10 Release – Oct 19 (~1 days away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel is available for testing from the artful-proposed pocket of the Ubuntu archive. Stable (Released &

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#### [Kernel Team Summary- October 11, 2017](https://canonical.com/blog/kernel-team-summary-october-11-2017)

October 04 through October 09 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~2 days away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~1 week away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel is available for testing from the artfu

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#### [Kernel Team Summary – October 4, 2017](https://canonical.com/blog/kernel-team-summary-october-4-2017)

September 25 through October 03 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~1 day away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~1 week away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~2 week away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel i

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#### [Server Team at the Ubuntu Rally in NYC](https://canonical.com/blog/server-team-at-the-ubuntu-rally-in-nyc)

The Ubuntu Rally occurred last week in New York City where the entirety of the Canonical Engineering teams as well as various members of the community spent time working through final plans for Artful and continued discussions for next year’s LTS release.Below are notes on a few items last week’s event:Artful Final BetaWe saw the release

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#### [Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications Survey](https://canonical.com/blog/results-of-the-ubuntu-desktop-applications-survey)

I had the distinct honor to deliver the closing keynote of the UbuCon Europe conference in Paris a few weeks ago.  First off — what a beautiful conference and venue!  Kudos to the organizers who really put together a truly remarkable event.

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