Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ubuntu 11.10 final release (13 October 2011) running Unity 4.22.0. The naming of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) was announced on 7 March 2011 by Mark Shuttleworth. He explained that Oneiric means "dreamy". [112] Ubuntu 11.10 was released on 13 October 2011. It is Canonical's 15th release of Ubuntu. Support ended on 9 May 2013. [113]
8th LTS release, used in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [292] and optionally in 12.04 ESM, [293] Debian 7 "Wheezy" and Slackware 14.0. [ 1 ] [ 290 ] Canonical promised to (at least) provide long-term support until April 2017; [ 194 ] Support has continued for months after.
It was decided to support "legacy software", i.e. select 32-bit i386 packages, for Ubuntu 19.10 (since out of support) and 20.04 LTS. [45] On 9 August 2024, Ubuntu announced a change in policy to always use the latest upstream code of the Linux kernel at the time of each Ubuntu release, even if the kernel code hasn't seen a stable release. [46]
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.
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.
Being Ubuntu-based, it is compatible with its repositories and packages, and prior to version 0.4 "Loki", it used the Ubuntu software centre to handle software installation and uninstallation. However, after the release of Loki, Elementary bundled their own app store, AppCenter, [ 20 ] whose user interface is designed to be intuitive for new ...
Unity desktop in Ubuntu 11.10. More criticism appeared after the release of Ubuntu 11.10. In November 2011 Robert Storey writing in DistroWatch noted that developer work on Unity is now taking up so much time that little is getting done on outstanding Ubuntu bugs, resulting in a distribution that is not as stable or as fast as it should be ...
Ubuntu 10.04 included in Ubiquity a slideshow, which meets users with Ubuntu. [4] In Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat", the installer team made changes to simplify the tool and speed up the installation wizard. [5] Ubiquity allows the user to choose the installer to automatically update the software while it's installing.