<P> This release also dropped support for 32 - bit architecture . </P> <P> Writer J.A. Watson of ZDNet said, "I have not been much of an Ubuntu fan for a long time now, but this release includes a lot of significant changes, many of which might address some of my most serious objections about Ubuntu . So I think I should take a closer look at it than I normally do ." He noted on printer configuration, "I got a notice that our wireless printer had been successfully configured . I hadn't even thought about trying to set up a printer yet, so that was a very nice surprise - and a good thing to point out to those who are still going around spouting 5 + years out of date information about how difficult it is to use printers with Linux ." </P> <P> Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver is a long term support version and will be released on 26 April 2018 . </P> <P> On 5 April 2017 Shuttleworth announced that this release, a year away at that time, will abandon the Unity desktop and employ the GNOME 3 desktop instead, as Canonical moves away from its ambitions to produce a unified mobile and desktop operating system and concentrates on desktop, cloud computing and IoT platforms instead . </P>

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