Canonical introduced this morning the new wallpapers that will be part of the final release of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system. The default wallpaper for Ubuntu 11.04 has also been reveled!

There are seventeen new wallpapers in total, for the new Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) release. The default wallpaper (the last one) is very similar to the Ubuntu 10.10 wallpaper.

In order of appearance, their names are: Arboreal ballet, Aubergine Sea, Berries, Bird, Fabric, Green, Grey day, Holes, Ilunabarra Azkainetik, La no alto, Quandro, Signpost, Tiny Worlds, Touch the light, Tri Narwhal, Variations On Natty Narwhal and White flowers.

These wallpapers are created by community members. Congrats to the authors of these beautiful photographs! Without any further ado, we will let you now enjoy these beautiful new wallpapers of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).

Among some of the interesting features that will be present in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), we can mention the latest stable version of the GNOME 3.0 desktop environment, which brings many improvements in various areas, such as Nautilus, Empathy, Evolution, Tomboy, Totem, Brasero, and much more.

Natty's kernel packages will be based on Linux kernel 2.6.38, and applications such as LibreOffice 3.3, Mozilla Firefox 4, Banshee 1.9, Transmission 2.13 or Pidgin 2.7.9, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.9 and The GIMP 2.6.11 (all three available from the default software repositories) will also be present in the final version of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).

Don't forget to visit our website next Thursday, March 31st, for an in-depth article on the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 1 release, where we will unveil more of Natty's new features!

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