I have installed and reviewed seven versions of beta 2 of Ubuntu and six Flavors 18.04 LTS. In each review, I took memory consumption information at idle time at first login time. I accumulate them in a table (LibreOffice Calc) and make a chart of them. Here's the result chart comparing all Ubuntu original, and Kubuntu up to Ubuntu Budgie, including the new generation Lubuntu Next with my data. The result could give you a rough information of which systems take more and which other systems take less memory. This comparison is not precise in benchmarking sense and you should not rely on this for scientific purpose.

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This tutorial explains how to upgrade your Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" using command lines. It is safer, clearer, and controllable in only five steps. You will need to download about 800MB of data or more and spend about 2 hours or more to finish them all. The result is you get 18.04 LTS system without reinstalling or deleting any installed applications. Happy upgrading!

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Trisquel 8.0 GNU/Linux operating system finally released at Thursday, 18 April 2018 by Ruben Rodriguez. It is available in three versions of Regular, Mini, and Kids editions, each in 32 and 64 bit. This is a list of download links and also mirrors for it all you can instantly click and download. Happy downloading!

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This is the traditional article to give you suggestions what to do after installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver". I divide the discussions in two parts, with and without internet. You will start with familiarizing yourself to the new desktop in Ubuntu and finally find your favorite applications using Ubuntu Software. I hope this quick guide helps you a lot. Enjoy 18.04!

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This is the list of all download links of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and all Official Flavors desktop versions. This release is called Bionic Beaver. You are able to download --without redirection-- by simply clicking on any link available such as ISO, Torrent, and Zsync for each 64 bit and 32 bit versions. Please report any incorrect link on the comment and happy downloading!

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Your 16.04 system can be upgraded directly to 18.04. It's because both are LTS versions. This means you do not have to do a clean install (reinstallation) or reformatting your disk. I have successfully upgraded my 16.04 LTS to 18.04 by keeping the Unity 7 desktop along with the new GNOME 3 by using command lines on Terminal. If you want it, then follow instructions below.

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It is very unique. It is the only among Ubuntu brothers coming with Chromium browser, with the distinct Budgie Desktop, with a whole different user experience. Its desktop has its own tweak tool, its own Extensions, even you can add global menu and NetSpeed-like applets to it. It is not similar to Windows, not similar to Mac OS X, neither to Ubuntu Unity nor Ubuntu GNOME. It is Ubuntu Budgie. You will see in this short review for its beta 2 version how it looks and what it give you.

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It's beautiful, it's lovely, it's amusing, it's Ubuntu MATE 18.04 beta 2. It is an LTS version which will be supported for 3 years. It's more just-work now with a set of different appearances for Windows users ("Redmond"), for Mac OS X users ("Cupertino"), for Unity 7 users ("Mutiny"), and of course for long time Ubuntu MATE users themselves ("Traditional"). It comes with special Welcome program to introduce Ubuntu MATE for any new user, it comes with same experience like previous versions but latest applications (LibreOffice 6.0, Firefox 59, MATE Desktop 1.20) and enhancements, it needs only mid-level specs. with around 640MiB of RAM, and those all made Ubuntu MATE beta 2 really enjoyable. This short review will help you expecting what you will get on Ubuntu MATE final release later on April 26. Enjoy!

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Xubuntu 18.04 LTS beta 2 is very lightweight yet full-featured and is available to download on the daily images server. The final version --planned to be released on this April 26-- will be supported officially for 3 years (from 2018 to 2021). You will have latest applications (Firefox 59, LibreOffice 6.0, XFCE 4.12, etc.) but with the same user-friendliness as your previous experiences and needs only about 350MiB of RAM at idle time! The rest of this short review tells you those interesting things. Enjoy!

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" is planned to be released on this April 26, 2018. Here's a short review to the beta 2 version (aka al beta): it has a new user interface compared to the previous 16.04 LTS, it needs ~1.2GiB of RAM at idle time, it brings latest LibreOffice and Firefox, and it still uses Ubiquity graphical installer. This review brings you the screenshots and information after I installed the daily ISO image on my Acer Aspire One laptop. It feels very smooth on 4GB of RAM and it's very exciting for us to wait the final stable release!

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Lubuntu Next is a new operating system aside of Lubuntu developed by the original Lubuntu team. In other words, Lubuntu Next is Lubuntu little brother. The difference is Lubuntu Next uses LXQt, while Lubuntu uses LXDE as its desktop environment. As you may have known, LXQt is a new generation of LXDE which uses Qt Framework as its basis. Lubuntu Next 18.04 is an experimental distro worth testing (daily ISO image is available) and it needs more attention. This short review introduces

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The final beta (aka beta 2) of Lubuntu 18.04 is available. In this short review you will see things I've got after freshly installed it on my laptop: it runs only about 230MiB of RAM at idle, new wallpaper, latest GNOME Software, latest document editor programs (Abiword & Gnumeric) and applications. See here what you could expect from Lubuntu at the later final release this April 26, 2018.

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Kubuntu 18.04 Beta 2 is here! It arrived today at Friday, April 6, 2018 in an announcement from Steve Langasek on Ubuntu Announce mailing list. Here's the summary after I installed it freshly on my laptop: the memory usage is only about 370MiB when idle, new dark themes, new wallpaper, new applications (Firefox 59, LibreOffice 6.0, KDE Applications 17.12.3), Muon is here again along with Plasma Discover (both are software center). This will be a good news for every Kubuntu user who is waiting for the latest LTS version of Kubuntu.

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On Ubuntu 18.04, you may want to automount your disk partitions. With this, you don't need to open the partition every time you want to access it. Also, this seriously helps if you work with LibreOffice with your documents in different partition. What you need is the built-in GNOME Disk Utility program and the setting is very easy. It's explained on the instruction below and it's also applicable to Ubuntu 17.10. To start the setting, open up Disks program from menu or simply run gnome-disk-utility from terminal.

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Okular actually has multitab feature since version 0.19. If you are using Kubuntu 14.04 or above, you already get it. It's disabled by default. To enable it, go to menu Settings > Configure Okular > General > Program Features > give check to Open new files in tabs > OK.

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Now try to open many PDF files at once and happy reading.

Okular reading books in multiple tabs, including UbuntuBuzz's one

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