14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Alpha 1 (Xenial Xerus) was just released, and users have noticed that it comes with a lot of new and interesting stuff. You can get all of those goodies in your Ubuntu MATE 15.10 right now.
This has to be to something that hasn’t been done until now or, at least, I haven’t seen anything like it. The leader of the Ubuntu MATE project, Martin Wimpress, just revealed that there is a PPA available that allows Ubuntu MATE 15.10 users to get all the changes that have landed in the latest Alpha.
It’s really interesting to see this kind of option for Ubuntu MATE users and it’s something that I would love to see for other distros as well. This is very different from forcing an upgrade to the latest Ubuntu MATE 16.04 version, which can’t be reversed.
In order to get the new package, you will have to add a PPA to the operating system, which can be done very easily. All you need to do is to open a terminal and enter the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/wily-mate