Xenial Xerus Beta 1

[Joshua R. Poulson]

You pointed to the Alpha-2 cloud images. Beta-1 is here:

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/beta-1/

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:24 PM, <flocculant at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
> "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad.
> You’re mad."
> "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
> "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
>
>  ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
>
>
> This Beta features images for Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu
> MATE, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu.
>
> Pre-releases of Xenial Xerus are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a
> stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional,
> even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavour
> developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting and fixing bugs
> as we work towards getting this release ready.
>
> Beta 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider
> testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some
> bugs.
>
> While these Beta 1 images have been tested and work, except as noted in
> the release notes, Ubuntu developers are continuing to improve Xenial
> Xerus. In particular, once newer daily images are available, system
> installation bugs identified in the Beta 1 installer should be verified
> against the current daily image before being reported in Launchpad. Using
> an obsolete image to re-report bugs that have already been fixed wastes
> your time and the time of developers who are busy trying to make 16.04 the
> best Ubuntu release yet. Always ensure your system is up to date before
> reporting bugs.
>
> Lubuntu:
>
> Lubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu based on LXDE and focused on providing a
> very lightweight distribution.
>
> The Beta 1 images can be downloaded at:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/xenial/beta-1/
>
> More information on Lubuntu Beta-1 can be found at:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta1/Lubuntu
>
> http://lubuntu.me/xenialb1
>
> Ubuntu Cloud:
>
> Ubuntu Cloud images can be run on Amazon EC2, Openstack, SmartOS and many
> other clouds.
>
> The Alpha-2 images can be downloaded from:
>
> http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/alpha-2/
>
>
> Ubuntu GNOME:
>
> Ubuntu GNOME is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop environment.
>
> The Beta 1 images can be downloaded at:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/xenial/beta-1/
>
> More information on Ubuntu GNOME Beta 1 can be found here:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta1/UbuntuGNOME
>
> Ubuntu MATE:
>
> Ubuntu MATE is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the MATE desktop environment.
>
> The Beta 1 images can be downloaded at:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/xenial/beta-1/
>
> More information on Ubuntu MATE Beta 1 can be found at:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta1/UbuntuMATE
>
> https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-xenial-beta1/
>
> UbuntuKylin:
>
> UbuntuKylin is a flavour of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users.
>
> The Beta 1 images can be downloaded at:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/xenial/beta-1/
>
> More information on UbuntuKylin Beta 1 can be found here:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta1/UbuntuKylin
>
> Ubuntu Studio: Ubuntu Studio is a flavour of Ubuntu configured for working
> on multimedia projects.
>
> The Beta 1 images can be downloaded at:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/xenial/beta-1/
>
> More information on Ubuntu Studio Beta 1 can be found here:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta1/UbuntuStudio
>
> Xubuntu:
>
> Xubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu based on the Xfce desktop environment.
>
> The Beta 1 images can be downloaded at:
>
> http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/xenial/beta-1/
>
> More information on Xubuntu Beta 1 can be found at:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta1/Xubuntu
>
> https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-16-04-lts-beta-1/
>
> Regular daily images for Ubuntu can be found at:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com
>
> If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop
> Xenial, we suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list.
> This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of
> approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases and other
> interesting events.
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
>
> A big thank you to the developers and testers for their efforts to pull
> together this Beta release!
>
> Flocculant
>
> Xubuntu Release Team and QA Lead
>
> On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
>
>
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>
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