14 DAY TRIAL // As part of today's Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) announcement, the Xubuntu team was also pleased to publish an informative story about the immediate availability of the Xubuntu 16.10 operating system.
Also shipping with the recently released Linux 4.8 kernel, which promises to support even more hardware components than the version using in Xubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), Xubuntu 16.10 is a normal release that brings an improved Xfce4 desktop environment that ships with multiple packages built against the GTK+ 3.20 technologies.
"This release has seen little visible change since April’s 16.04, however much has been done towards supplying Xubuntu with Xfce packages built with GTK3, including the porting of many plugins and Xfce Terminal to GTK3. Those GTK3 ports can, if one wishes to test them, be installed from one of the team’s development PPAs," said the devs in the release announcement.
Xfce Terminal was ported to GTK+ 3.20 as well
As you can see, Xubuntu 16.10 also comes with an up-to-date Xfce Terminal app that was ported to the GTK+ 3.20 technologies, which invaded other official Ubuntu flavors from the Yakkety Yak release as well, and it looks like many Xfce plugins were ported to GTK3 for this cycle, which will receive security and software updates for 9 months, until July 2017.
Xubuntu 16.10 is available for download for 64- and 32-bit systems right now via our website, but if you're upgrading from Xubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), you should know that there are a couple of known issues, such as the fact that the Thunar file manager contains a few bugs, and you might be asked twice for your password when returning from suspend on some hardware.
