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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver, the seventh LTS release, is a long-term support version that was announced on 24 October 2017 on Shuttleworth's blog and released on 26 April 2018. [220] [221] Ubuntu 18.04 LTS had normal LTS support for five years until May 2023 and has paid ESM support available from Canonical for an additional five years until ...
Ubuntu (/ ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː / ⓘ uu-BUUN-too) [8] is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. [9] [10] [11] Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, [12] Server, [13] and Core [14] for Internet of things devices [15] and robots.
The Ubuntu MATE project was founded by Martin Wimpress and Alan Pope [4] and began as an unofficial derivative of Ubuntu, using an Ubuntu 14.10 base for its first release; [5] a 14.04 LTS release followed shortly. [6] As of February 2015, Ubuntu MATE gained the official Ubuntu flavour status from Canonical as per the release of 15.04 Beta 1.
GetDeb was an Ubuntu software portal providing legacy versions of software included in Old LTS Ubuntu versions, and software that is omitted from the official repositories. [1] PlayDeb was a sister project with an explicit focus on games. The names come from the .deb package format used by Ubuntu. GetDeb and PlayDeb services can also be used by ...
Ubuntu Budgie started out as an unofficial community flavor in parallel with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, referred to as "budgie-remix". [2] budgie-remix 16.10 was later released by strictly following the time frame issued for Ubuntu 16.10. [3] It was eventually recognized as an official community flavor of Ubuntu, and was rebranded as Ubuntu Budgie. [4]
Before Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubiquity offered a migration assistant which brought over user accounts from Windows, OS X and other Linux distributions along with e-mail and Instant messaging accounts, Bookmarks from Firefox and Internet Explorer as well as the user's pictures, wallpapers, documents, music, photos folder although this was a Windows ...
GendBuntu is a version of Ubuntu adapted for use by France's National Gendarmerie.The Gendarmerie have pioneered the use of open source software on servers and personal computers since 2005 when it adopted the OpenOffice.org office suite, making the OpenDocument.odf format its nationwide standard.
8th LTS release, used in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [290] and optionally in 12.04 ESM, [291] Debian 7 "Wheezy" and Slackware 14.0. [ 1 ] [ 288 ] Canonical promised to (at least) provide long-term support until April 2017; [ 192 ] Support has continued for months after.