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- Legal Name: Canonical Ltd.
- Website: www.ubuntu.com
- Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu
- Title: Ubuntu
- Developer: Canonical Ltd.
What is Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is a Debian-based free and open-source Linux distribution. Ubuntu is developed by a community of developers and Canonical.
Ubuntu’s support for OpenStack makes it a popular operating system for cloud computing. It is suitable for desktop and server use. There are three official Ubuntu editions, Desktop, Server, and Core. Ubuntu is named after an African philosophy, which means “humanity to others” or “I am what I am because of who we all are”. Today, Ubuntu desktop is the most widely used Linux workstation platform, available in more than 55 languages worldwide.
The first release of Ubuntu was released in October of 2004. Ubuntu was also the first Linux-based operating system to commit to scheduled releases on a predictable cadence, every six months. Ubuntu team also decided that every fourth release, which means every two years, would receive long-term support for large-scale deployments. Long-term support, or LTS for short, includes new hardware updates, security patches, and updates to cloud computing infrastructure, Ubuntu Stack. In July of 2005, Canonical funded Ubuntu. The announcement was made by Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical. Canonical created the Ubuntu Foundation and provided funding of $10 million. In March of 2009, third-party cloud management platform support was added to Ubuntu.
There are various official variants of Ubuntu. Kubuntu variant uses KDE instead of GNOME or Unity interfaces. Lubuntu is a lighter, energy-efficient derivative of the operating system that also needs fewer resources. Ubuntu Budgies is an official derivative of Ubuntu that uses Budgie. Ubuntu Kylin is another popular official derivative aims the Chinese market. Ubuntu Studio aims audio, video, and graphic editors by providing open-source multimedia creation applications. And Xubuntu uses Xfce
- Initial Release: 2004
- Last Release: 2022 – Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu News
Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” daily builds are now ready for download
One month after the beginning of the development of Ubuntu 23.04, the first daily images have been released. The daily ...
The release date of Ubuntu 23.04 has been revealed
The developers of the Ubuntu operating system have begun the development of the next release and shared its schedule. Ubuntu ...
KDE neon is now rebased on Ubuntu 22.04
KDE developers have announced the release of an update for the KDE neon distribution that rebases it from Ubuntu 20.04 ...
Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu is ready for download
Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu is now available for desktops, servers, and cloud computing and it will be supported for 9 ...
Debian and Ubuntu received kernel security updates
Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux distributions received critical security updates addressing various vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities may lead to a privilege ...
Canonical introduces Ubuntu Pro beta with a free subscription option
Canonical introduces the expanded security maintenance and compliance subscription plan for its popular operating system, Ubuntu Pro as a public ...
AWS announced Ubuntu Desktop for Amazon WorkSpaces
AWS announced that Amazon WorkSpaces now offers support for Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS, published by Canonical. Until now, Amazon WorkSpaces ...
Ubuntu 22.10 Final Beta is ready for testing
Ubuntu 22.10 Beta comes with Linux kernel 5.19, Mesa 22, and Network Manager, along with Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice. In ...
UbuntuDDE Remix 22.04 LTS is available for download
UbuntuDDE Remix 22.04, which brings Deepin Desktop Environment to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish, is now available. The latest version ...
Snap Store on Ubuntu to be replaced with the unofficial one
A user on Reddit has noticed that Ubuntu might be looking for ways of replacing the official Snap Store with ...
Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS is released with kernel 5.15
Canonical has released the fifth point update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" operating system that was released in April ...
Ubuntu update on Azure VMs causing DNS problems
The issue affects customers running Ubuntu 18.04 VMs who have Ubuntu Unattended-Upgrades enabled and received systemd version 237-3ubuntu10.54. Customers can ...
Ubuntu 22.10 will bring native WebP image support
Ubuntu developers have decided to include webp-pixbuf-loader tool in their next release, which enables WebP support. This new tool will ...
Ubuntu 22.04.1 is now available for download after a little delay
Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, which is the first point update for the long-term support operating ...
Ubuntu 22.04.1’s release delayed until the 11th of August
While the Ubuntu Release Team is working on testing a fix for a bug in Ubuntu 22.04.1 release candidates, the ...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now runs Linux kernel 5.15 LTS under the hood
Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu projects has fixed several vulnerabilities for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in its ...
Ubuntu Confidential VMs are available on Azure
Ubuntu CVMs use the security extensions of the third generation of AMD CPUs, Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging. CVMs enable ...
Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) is now End-of-Life
Ubuntu 21.10 was the first Ubuntu release that included the complete GNOME 40 desktop environment with GNOME 40 apps, and ...
Ubuntu users get new security updates
Canonical, Ubuntu's developer released at least 17 patches for vulnerabilities discovered in Linux Kernel. Canonical urged all users to update ...
Ubuntu Firefox Snap has major improvements
With the improvement, Firefox snap has upgrades on security, offers cross-release compatibility, and reduces the time for improvements from Mozilla ...
Canonical announced Ubuntu Core 22
Canonical announced that Ubuntu Core 22, a fully containerized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant designed for IoT and edge devices, is ...
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