For those wishing to get a preview of the next long term release of Ubuntu, there is a shell server temporarily available until the official release of Bionic Beaver later this month.

     The machine is bionic.eskimo.com.  You can access it with ssh and x2go.  If you use x2go, be sure there is not a ‘mesg n’ or other terminal related command in your .profile or your login will fail.

     When Bionic Beaver is officially released, providing they haven’t broken anything severely, ubuntu.eskimo.com will be upgraded to this version, 18.04LTS.