Development of the Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak operating system continues to progress smoothly at Canonical headquarters, and today we have some good news for Ubuntu fans.
The Ubuntu Kernel team has informed the operating system community that Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak will soon be updated to the latest stable Linux 4.6 kernels.
The development team will then move on to the Release Candidate with Linux kernel version 4.7, and after that, the operating system will finally be released with Linux kernel 4.8.
So with Linux kernel 4.8 we could have the next LTS (Long Term Support). Of course we mention this as the latest LTS version “carries” Linux kernel 4.4, which is used in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus.
Development of Linux kernel 4.8 will begin sometime this summer, one week after the release of Linux kernel 4.7.
After seven or eight Release Candidates, the final version of Linux kernel 4.8 should be released at the end of September, while Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak will be officially released on October 20, 2016.
For this reason, there is a good chance that we will see it in this particular version of Ubuntu.
Let's see..
