The official release for this Ubuntu version is scheduled for October 23, but you can test the daily build right now

Sep 25, 2014 15:48 GMT  ·  By

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) is scheduled to be released soon and the developer have just upgraded the Linux kernel for the distribution.

The Linux kernel is one of the most important packages in a distribution, so everyone is paying attention to what the Ubuntu developers will decide to implemented. It's been already established the branch of the kernel that will be used in Ubuntu 14.10, but it remains to be seen what specific version will be used.

"The Utopic kernel has been rebased to the v3.16.3 upstream stable kernel and uploaded to the archive, ie. 3.16.0-17.23. Please test and let us know your results. Also, we're approximately 2 weeks away from Utopic Kernel Freeze on Thurs Oct 9. Any patches submitted after kernel freeze are subject to our Ubuntu kernel SRU policy," said Canonical's Joseph Salisbury.

The final Beta for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) is expected to arrive to today, for all the flavors and the main Ubuntu distro, and the stable release is expected to arrive on October 23.

If you don't want to wait until the Beta version is made available, you can download the daily build for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn), which will be almost identical with that one.