Lubuntu 16.10 Beta Out Now with Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS and the Latest LXDE Desktop

As part of today's Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Beta launch, Simon Quigley from the Lubuntu Linux team released the first Beta build of the upcoming Lubuntu 16.10 operating system.

The development of the Lubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) distribution continues and today we can get an early taste of what's coming in the final release of the lightweight GNU/Linux operating system, which should launch along with the rest of the Ubuntu flavors on October 13, 2016.

Although the Lubuntu team announced a few weeks ago that they are planning and working hard on migrating the desktop environment of Lubuntu 16.10 to the modern, next-generation LXQt graphical interface, this first Beta build still ships with LXDE. Additonally, Lubuntu 16.10 Beta 1 is powered by the same Linux 4.4 LTS kernel from Lubuntu 16.04 LTS.

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