Ubuntu 17.10 download. Know about the Ubuntu 17.10 features. Ubuntu 17.10 comes with the newest software enhancements and nine months of security and maintenance updates.
Features and changes
- New Gnome desktop – The biggest change is the desktop environment. Ubuntu 17.10 is retiring Unity in favour of GNOME, version 3.26.1.
- New Wayland – The default display server is Wayland, but can also run x.org as a session or on systems that cannot support Wayland.
- New on screen keyboard – The new Caribou on screen keyboard is paving the way to future touchscreen laptop experience.
- Same user experience – The familiar Ubuntu experience – from desktop layout to key shortcuts – remains unchanged thanks to themes and extensions.
- Familiar dock – The dock that has been a staple feature of Ubuntu since 11.04 is still here but can now be moved around left, right or bottom.
- More customisation – The new settings application lets you easily explore all the possibilities and features of the new desktop.
- Kernel – Ubuntu 17.10 features the Linux kernel 4.13.
- Seamless – Upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10 should be seamless from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 17.04.
- Swap – The swap is now a file, not a partition that will scale to what your system needs, making it easier to install Ubuntu on any machine.
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Desktop image
The desktop image allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of image is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this image.
There is one image available:
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
Server install image
The server install image allows you to install Ubuntu permanently on a computer for use as a server. It will not install a graphical user interface.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) server install image
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
- 32-bit PC (i386) server install image
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors.
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