It's that time of the year! Ubuntu MATE 20.04 Beta is now available for download so courageous early adopters and community superheroes who love to help with QA and testing can get stuck in
Ubuntu MATE Focal Fossa delivers the freshest MATE Desktop 1.24 and continues where 19.10 left off with more bug fixes. See the release notes for all the details.
The Ubuntu MATE team is delighted to be a part of Ubuntu Testing Week which starts today (3rd April) until 8 April along with the other flavours in the Ubuntu family. Please join us in testing the beta of Ubuntu MATE 20.04 (Focal Fossa) as well sharing the by testing out some of the other flavours.
There are many way ways of testing. A spare machine, a secondary hard drive, a live USB, or using a VM (Virtual Machine). If you are planning on using a VM, you may be interested in trying Quickemu which allows you to easily manage QEMU VM's with a shell script. We hope you will join in and help us make Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and all of it's family a success
Website refresh
Coinciding with this beta release we are also unveiling the all new Ubuntu MATE website As you can see from the Ubuntu Testing Week information above, the new site a rammed full of useful information about the project, it's history and how to get involved. Go and take a look round, there is so much more to discover
I'd like to extend my thanks and huge appreciation to @lah7, @franksmcb and @madhens for all their hard work in creating our new fabulous new website. Thank you!
Yeah, that's the intention for LTS now. Five two years is way too short for "Long-term" anyway in the server space, and for average people it usually means they don't have to deal with upgrading at all if they bounce from LTS to LTS by virtue of using a new machine.
It's going to be an awesome release. MATE 1.24 has a lot of improvements and features, along with the distro itself. I'm glad that I was able to contribute to some degree. Thanks and appreciation to the team!
Looks like an amazing release! Really nice work, it was a joy reading that changelog. That evolution-integration in the calendar looks especially nice and useful!
One question. Just in case I'll have to buy a new PC, where can I find an installation tool for Ubuntu 20.04?
You know, I'm not a computer engineer. In case of any virus, worm, malfunction, etc., my last resort is to use my (flash-jack with) Ubuntu 18.04 tool of 2 years ago. So, where to find a newer one?
Thanks for the invitation to try Ubuntu-Mate. I installed it today on a VM and it is running very well. Since the installation I have not found any problem.
So then, should Canonical use that term public-facing and call any LTS greater than two years ESM releases? I think LTS has become more ambiguous over time, excising the ambiguity before it gets worse for people, where you have to explain one term can mean any variety of things would be great idea to reduce the likelihood of confusion when multiple LTS releases are active.
early adopters and community superheroes 
who love 
to help with QA and testing can get stuck in 
MATE Desktop 1.24 and continues where 19.10 left off with more bug 
fixes. See the release notes for all the details.
by testing out some of the other flavours.
? We've got a helpful guide on how to report it.
the all new Ubuntu MATE website 
As you can see from the Ubuntu Testing Week information above, the new site a rammed full of useful information about the project, it's history and how to get involved. Go and take a look 
round, there is so much more to discover 
in creating our new fabulous new website. Thank you! 
