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Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes 6.13: 20 January 2025 [3] 6.13 [4] Greg Kroah-Hartman: 6.12 17 November 2024 [5] 6.12.11 [4] Real-time support for x86/x86_64, RISC-V, and ARM64 [6] Userspace scheduler extensions support [7] QR codes for DRM panic messages [6] 25th LTS release [8]
It featured version 3.38 of the GNOME desktop environment, and Linux kernel 5.8.15. For the first time since version 7, Fedora defaulted to a slideshow background (four png images of the Earth, from space) that changes hue according to the time of day. GNU nano became the default text editor for the command-line interface in place of vi. Fedora ...
Version Codename Release date Supported until Remarks Kernel version [8] 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus 2016-04-25 [9] 2018-08 [10] First release, branded budgie-remix 4.10 (16.04.3) 16.10 Yakkety Yak 2016-10-16 [11] 2017-07- 20 [12] 4.8 17.04 Zesty Zapus 2017-04-11 [13] 2018-01 First release after rename to Ubuntu Budgie following recognition as an ...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop uses Linux kernel 5.17 for newer hardware and a rolling HWE (hardware enablement) kernel based on version 5.15 for other hardware; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server uses version 5.15, while Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu for IoT use an optimized kernel based on version 5.15. It updates Python to 3.10 and Ruby to 3.0. [274]
A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. [1] A comparison of system kernels can provide insight into the design and architectural choices made by the developers of particular operating systems.
PREEMPT_RT was a set of patches for the Linux kernel which implement both hard and soft real-time computing capabilities. [1] On September 20, 2024, PREEMPT_RT was fully merged and enabled in mainline Linux on the supported architectures x86, x86_64, RISC-V and ARM64. [2] This will make kernel v6.12 the first release to include baked-in real ...
The 20th anniversary of Linux was celebrated by Torvalds in July 2011 with the release of version 3.0.0. [29] As 2.6 had been the version number for 8 years, a new uname26 personality that reports 3.x as 2.6.40+x had to be added to the kernel so that old programs would work. [47] Version 3.0 was released on 22 July 2011. [48]
The final minor update, called a "point release", is version 9.13, [222] released on 18 July 2020; 4 years ago (). Major upgrades include the Linux kernel going from version 3.16 to 4.9, GNOME desktop version going from 3.14 to 3.22, KDE Plasma 4 was upgraded to Plasma 5, LibreOffice 4.3 upgraded to 5.2 and Qt upgraded from 4.8 to 5.7.