Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Linux OS Is Now Officially Open for Development

Share
  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical’s Adam Conrad announced the other day that the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system, due for release on October 19, 2017, was officially open for development.

Ubuntu 17.10 was open for development since last Friday, but because there wasn’t anyone to send the regular mailing list announcement to inform developers about this important fact, only a few knew about it. However, we’re informing you today that Artful is officially open with two major packaging toolchain changes.

According to Adam Conrad, the first change is that ddebs will be generated using the upstream debhelper code, and the second one is for the dpkg package manager, which apparently will now produce .buildinfo files by default for all uploads, including source builds.

“This should, again, be mostly a no-op for you, but there is one gotcha, which is that multiple ‘-nc’ runs of d… (read more)

Remember to like our facebook and our twitter @ubuntufree for a chance to win a free Ubuntu laptop by Dell or HP!

Top Trending Pages: Ubuntu Downloads | Ubuntu How To Guide | Download Ubuntu Software | Share Ubuntu Files With Windows