Ubuntu 17.10,which has the codename ‘Artful Aardvark’, opened for development earlier this week.

2. Ubuntu release

3. Ubuntu 17.10 release Date
• June 29 – Alpha 1 (opt-in for flavors)
• July 27 – Alpha 2 (opt-in for flavors)
• August 31 – Beta 1 (opt-in for flavors)
• September 28 – Final Beta
• October 19 – Final Release
• For more informations visit :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule

4. Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 17.10, which has the codename ‘Artful Aardvark’, opened for
development earlier this week.
• This cycle promises to be a very large one for Ubuntu developers and
Canonical engineers, and important ahead of the next LTS next year.
• Ubuntu 17.10, codename Artful Aardvark, be the first version of
Ubuntu since 2011 to not ship with the Unity desktop by default.
Instead, Ubuntu 17.10 will use GNOME as the default desktop
environment

5. What to Expect from Ubuntu 17.10
• First things first: this early in development do not expect to see an
awful lot of difference between Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10 — but that
will change over the coming months.
• Ubuntu 17.10 will use GNOME Shell as the default desktop
environment. Unity 7 will be available in the main repository but
will not ship on the disk image as an optional session. This will mark
the first time in over six years that Ubuntu has offered a GNOME
session by default.
• Upstart, Unity 8, and various misc Ubuntu touch packages are likely
to be removed from the archives in the coming weeks.

6. • Ubuntu 17.10 will offer a Wayland session alongside a traditional Xorg one.
• A decision is yet to be taken on whether to Artful will use LightDM as the display
manager (possibly with a new greeter front end) or switch fully to GDM, used by
upstream GNOME. The latter lacks a few much-loved features of the former, like remote
desktop access and guest accounts.
• Likewise, no formal decision has been made on whether Ubuntu 17.10
will ship with GNOME 3.26, due for release in September of this year, or not. With this
version of GNOME promising to deliver some important improvements (like non-
integer HiDPI scaling, a modern sharing framework, etc) here’s hoping it’s included.
• With plenty of work required to plump the GNOME stack into Unity, debate whether to
keep patched versions of certain apps so that they play nice with Unity, and so on.
• Ubuntu devs are tentatively targeting Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha 2 as the milestone by which
they expect the majority of the Unity to GNOME switch to have taken place.

7. Download Ubuntu 17.10 Builds
• You can download the latest Ubuntu 17.10 daily build from the official
Ubuntu image server.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/pending/
• Please keep in mind that Ubuntu daily builds are spun for testing
purposes and should not be installed by anyone looking for a stable
desktop experience. This warning applies double for daily builds
produced this early in the development cycle.

8. Ubuntu 17.10 desktop image