Canonical has opened up Resolute Raccoon for testing, and the beta shows promise.

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) beta is now available for testing. Key highlights include Linux 7.0 kernel, GNOME 50 with full X11 removal, stable variable refresh rate and fractional scaling, a new Resources app replacing System Monitor, App Center now managing Deb packages alongside snaps, Mesa 26.0 with OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4 support, and Docker Engine 29 with Containerd as the default image store. Beta builds are available for x86 and ARM64.

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