System76's Pop!_OS Linux to Get a Beta Release Next Week with HiDPI Improvements

System76 is getting ready to unleash the first Beta release of their upcoming Pop!_OS Linux distribution, which should be available to download next week based on the Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta.

It appears that System76's development team recently dropped focus on the Pop!_OS Installer, which they develop in collaboration with the elementary OS team, to concentrate on fixing critical bugs and add the final touches to the Beta release. They still need to add some patches to fix backlight brightness issues on Nvidia GPUs.

"We’re currently working with NVIDIA to correct backlight brightness issues related to their 9- and 10-series cards. We have a patch to our driver and anticipate them providing a fix upstream," said System76 in their latest weekly report. "There are also a few HiDPI bugs with X that we previously fixed for Ubiquity that now need to be fixed for Pop!_OS.... (read more)

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