Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) Features and Release Date

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Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) looks and behaves almost exactly like 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

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Default install applications

Ubuntu 14.10 will ship with the following versions of apps.

LibreOffice 4.3.0.4
Firefox 31.0
Thunderbird 31.0
Brasero disk burner 3.10.0
Rhythmbox music manager and player 3.0.3

The Inkscape vector graphics editor (version 0.48.5) and GIMP bitmap graphics editor (version 2.8) are available for installation from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Browsers

The default browser in Ubuntu 14.10 for the desktop remains Mozilla's Firefox, which is now at version 31.0.

Canonical also includes its own Ubuntu Browser in this release.

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Release Dates

The official release schedule for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) shows a second beta on 25 September and the final release on 23 October.

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