Hello Linux Geeksters. As a reminder, Mark Shuttleworth have made two interesting announcements yesterday: Ubuntu 15.10 has been codenamed Wily Werewolf and that a new Ubuntu phone will be released later this year.
Today, at the Ubuntu Online Summit, Mark has announced that the development of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf has been officially started, the system being based on Debian 9.0 Stretch and will be using Kernel 4.x.
While the release schedule has not been published, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf and derivative systems are expected to become available starting with the 30th of October, 2015.
Other topics, discussed at the UOS 2015:
According to the Launchpad blueprints, convergence improvements for Weather App, Music App and Web Browser App will be implemented, there are discussions on whether the replacement of ifupdown with networkd will be done, a new Terminal App is under development whole Ubuntu Calendar App will also receive improvements.