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Ubuntu 21.10 Beta Now Available for Download with Linux Kernel 5.13 and GNOME 40

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9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Canonical released today the beta version of its upcoming Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" release, allowing public beta testers to take the next major Ubuntu version for a test drive on their personal computers.

Ubuntu 21.10 has been in development since May 2021 and, like all previous versions, it was based on the previous release, in this case Ubuntu 21.04 "Hiruste Hippo." After a few months of hard work, the Ubuntu devs managed to make some important changes to the upcoming release.

Besides the updated toolchain based on GNU C Library 2.34, GCC 11, LLVM 13, and GNU Binutils 2.37, Ubuntu 21.10 beta now ships with a more recent kernel, namely Linux 5.13, and finally makes the jump to the GNOME 40 desktop environment series with its revamped Activities Overview and other major changes.

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