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Ubuntu releases are also given code names, using an adjective and an animal with the same first letter – an alliteration, e.g., "Dapper Drake".With the exception of the first two releases, code names are in alphabetical order, and except for the first three releases, the first letters are sequential, allowing a quick determination of which release is newer.
Ubuntu (/ ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː / ⓘ uu-BUUN-too) [9] is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. [10] [11] [12] Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, [13] Server, [14] and Core [15] for Internet of things devices [16] and robots.
Ubuntu adopts dash as its default shell. 2008 () POSIX-2008 is released by the IEEE. "This standard defines a standard source level interface to the shell and utility functionality required by application programs, including shell scripts." [54] 2009 () February 20, 2009 (): Bash 4.0 is released [59] Its license is GPL-3.0-or-later.
Ubuntu shipped with Wayland by default in Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark). [92] However, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reverted to X.Org by default due to several issues. [93] [94] Since Ubuntu 21.04, Wayland is the default again. [95] Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships Wayland as the default session in version 8, released 7 May 2019. [96]
Linux Mint is a community-developed Linux distribution.It is based on Ubuntu and designed for x86-64 based computers; another variant is based on Debian which is named Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) and has both 64-bit and IA-32 support.
Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.
Leafpad was created by Tarot Osuji, who remains its only author and maintainer. [5] The first published version of Leafpad was version 0.5.x in 2004. [6] The first full release to the public was version 0.7.6 on November 11, 2004. [7]
PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language.Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. [9]