14 DAY TRIAL // While there's no official announcement published at the moment of writing, Canonical released the final ISO images of the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating systems and its derivatives.
That's right, the wait is finally over and you can now download Ubuntu 17.10 and install it on your personal computer, but only if it's 64-bit capable because this is Ubuntu's first-ever release to drop support for 32-bit installations, thus the rest of the official flavors are still offering 32-bit ISO images.
Running the latest Linux 4.13 kernel, Ubuntu 17.10 is also the first release in more than seven years to drop the beloved Unity user interface in favor of the GNOME 3 desktop environment. The final image of Ubuntu 17.10 for desktops is using the recently released GNOME 3.26.1 packages.
Another major change of the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) release is that Wayland is now used by default on systems that support it, with the X.Org Server session as an option that the user can select from the login screen or can be automatically enabled as a fallback if Wayland isn't supported on your PC.
Download Ubuntu 17.10 and derivatives
Until Canonical publishes an official announcement so we can tell you all about its new features and changes, you can go ahead and download the Live ISO images of Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu Server 17.10, the latter being available for 64-bit, 32-bit, PPC64el (PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian), and s390x (IMB System z) systems.
Of course, you can also download the 64-bit and 32-bit Live ISO images of Kubuntu 17.10, Xubuntu 17.10, Lubuntu 17.10, Lubuntu Next 17.10, Ubuntu MATE 17.10, Ubuntu Kylin 17.10, Ubuntu Studio 17.10, and Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 right now through our web portal. But you can also attempt an upgrade from Ubuntu 17.04.