Lubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 Comes with LXDE as LXQt Got Postponed Until Lubuntu 17.04

As part of today's Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Final Beta release, Simon Quigley and hard working folks from the Lubuntu team had the great pleasure of announcing the release of Lubuntu 16.10 Beta 2.

The Beta 2 (Final Beta) milestone marks the end of the development cycle of the upcoming Ubuntu 16.10 operating system and its derivatives, including Lubuntu, of course, which means that the work on this new release is almost over, and most of the big features have already been implemented.

"We’re preparing Lubuntu 16.10, Yakkety Yak, for distribution in October 2016. With this first beta you can get a glimpse of what the next version will contain. We have some interesting things happening," reads the release notes. "This Yakkety Yak snapshot includes Linux kernel 4.8."

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