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Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Daily Build ISO Images Now Available to Download

Now that the release schedule of the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 operating system is published, the time has come to monitor its development cycle more closely because Ubuntu is going through some though times these days with the move from the Unity user interface to GNOME as default desktop environment after six years. Announced on April 28, 2011, Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) was the first release of the popular operating system to introduce the controversial, yet modern at that moment in time Unity UI, which relied on various components of the GNOME Stack. And now, Ubuntu 17.10, due for release on October 19, 2017, is returning to GNOME 3.

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