After several months of development and above all a lot of effort on the part of the Canonical development team and following the established schedule, the new stable version of Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish is finally available.
This new release of Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish comes with many new features and improvements, some of which Canonical planned for a long time, but was unable to implement on the newly released Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) due to its long-term support status and focus on stability and reliability.
As the news that was planned for this new version of Ubuntu has already been monitored, here on the blog we are going to reaffirm these and what this new release offers us.
What's new in Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish
As mentioned at the beginning of the article Canonical just released, the final ISO images of their Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish operating system.
After six months in development, Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish is now finally here, and it's available to download the ISO images right now for all the official flavors.
Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish It features all the great improvements from GNOME 3.30 which came to this release just last month.
With this this new version of Ubuntu includes improvements to the GNOME graphical package manager and Ubuntu Software Center in which you have the automatic updates of the Flatpaks packages and implementation of the Thunderbolt configurations through the GNOME Control Panel.
To finish, In addition to various bug fixes, this version comes with performance improvements, mainly related to RAM consumption.
All editions and versions run the latest Linux 4.18 kernel and they come with the latest versions of software, including LibreOffice 6.1 and Mozilla Firefox 62, as well as the GNOME 3.30 desktop, KDE Plasma 5.13, LXQt 0.13.0, Xfce 4.12, and MATE 1.20.
Unlock with fingerprint reader
One of the main novelties of Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish is lThe ability to unlock your Ubuntu desktop with a fingerprint reader.
Android integration
Canonical had already mentioned their intentions to integrate this new version of Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish with the KDE Connect application to Android.
And well now this is integrated by default.
Energy consumption
One of the most exciting things about Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish is the optimizations it offers users for much better power consumption, adjusting any low-level kernel option to turn off HDD and USB controllers, as well as other devices that are not in use, without sacrificing system stability.
Network sharing improvements and DLNA support
To improve media sharing and Ubuntu's support for smart devices using DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) protocol, Canonical made it easy to share multimedia content directly from their desktops, in addition to easily creating SMB (Samba) shares, another resource that will be integrated into the desktop.
Download Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish
In order to obtain this new system image and install this Linux distribution on your computer or you want to test it under a virtual machine. You just have to go to the official website of the distribution and in its download section you can get the image of the system.
You can make use of Etcher to save the image to a USB.
In addition to the main version (Ubuntu) we can find other flavors including Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Buddy, Ubuntu Kylin and Ubuntu Studio, for 64-bit architectures while for 32-bit architectures only Lubuntu and Xubuntu continued with this support in this version.
Ubuntu Server edition is also available and supports more hardware architectures than Ubuntu Desktop, including 64-bit (amd64), ARM64 (AArch64), IBM System z (s390x), PPC64el (Power PC 64-bit Little Endian) Raspberry Pi 2 / ARMhf. A live flavor of Ubuntu Server is also available only for 64-bit computers.
I do not know it yet but it shows it is very well updated and improved in all aspects
PLEASE I NEED UBUNTU STUDIO 18.10 IN SPANISH.