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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) [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.
In June 2020, a benchmark with 173 tests on WSL 2 (20H2) with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X showed an average of 87% of the performance of native Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. In contrast, WSL 1 had only 70% of the performance of native Ubuntu. WSL 2 improves I/O performance, providing a near-native level. [49]
Screenshot of Wikipedia's article on Earth, 18 January 2023 Opening English Wikipedia's main page with Mozilla Firefox 99 on Ubuntu 20.04. The English Wikipedia surpassed six million articles on 23 January 2020. [12] In November 2022, the total volume of the compressed texts of its articles amounted to 20 gigabytes. [13]
Trisquel (full name Trisquel GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu. [7] The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version of Ubuntu's modified kernel, with the non-free code (binary blobs) removed. [8]
For Ubuntu 8.04 the code was merged into Ubuntu and for 8.04 alpha 5, Wubi was also on the Ubuntu Live CD. [1] The project's aim was to enable existing Windows users, unacquainted with Linux, to try Ubuntu without risking any data loss (due to disk formatting or partitioning mistakes). [3] It could also safely uninstall Ubuntu from within Windows.
Used in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on newer hardware [69] Named Superb Owl [70] 5.16 9 January 2022 [71] 5.16.20 [72] April 2022 [72] New futex_waitv() system call for faster game performance [73] Memory folios infrastructure for a faster memory management [74] Add support for AMX instructions [75] Improve write congestion [76]