It includes Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu MATE

Jul 31, 2015 00:50 GMT  ·  By

Canonical, through Martin Wimpress, announced on July 30 that the second and last Alpha builds of the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, and Ubuntu Cloud 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating systems were available for download and testing.

While Ubuntu and many other flavors, including Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu GNOME, do not participate in the Alpha 2 release, the aforementioned Ubuntu Linux editions come with attractive new features, such as Linux kernel 4.1.

"The second alpha of the Wily Werewolf (to become 15.10) has now been released! This alpha features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Kylin and the Ubuntu Cloud images," says Martin Wimpress. "Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing."

We have already written in-depth articles about the new features included in the Kubuntu 15.10 Alpha 2, Lubuntu 15.10 Alpha 2, Ubuntu Kylin 15.10 Alpha 2, and Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Alpha 2 distributions, so we recommend reading them if you want to know exactly what was changed since the first Alpha build.

Highlights of Ubuntu 15.10 Alpha 2

If you don't have time to read the articles linked above, we can tell you that Kubuntu 15.10 Alpha 2 comes with KDE Plasma 5.3, KDE Applications 15.04.1, KDE Frameworks 5, LibreOffice 4.4, and Firefox 38, Lubuntu 15.10 Alpha 2 is still built around the LXDE desktop environment, and Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Alpha comes without Ubuntu Software Center.

Moreover, the Ubuntu Kylin 15.10 Alpha 2 operating system includes several updated components, such as Ubuntu Kylin Theme 1.4.0, Ubuntu Kylin Default Settings 1.3.9, Ubuntu Kylin Software Center 1.3.5, Youker Assistant 2.0.3, and China Weather Indicator 2.1.3.

The development cycle of the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system will continue with a first Beta build for opt-in flavors on August 27, the Final Beta build, which will also include Ubuntu itself, on September 24, and will conclude with the final release of Ubuntu 15.10 on October 22, 2015.