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Linux Mint: Clement Lefebvre dev team: 2006 22.1 [45] 5 years (main editions); ~3 years 2025-01-16 X Debian (LMDE), Ubuntu (main editions) desktop None Active Linux Lite: Jerry Bezencon Linux Lite Team 2012 7.2 [46] ? 2024-10-31 X Ubuntu: desktop None Active Mageia: Mageia Community mageia.org 2010 9 [47] 1 year 2023-09-04 X Mandriva Linux general
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.
Linux Mint 2.0 'Barbara' was the first version to use Ubuntu as its codebase and its GNOME interface. It had few users until the release of Linux Mint 3.0, 'Cassandra'. [14] [15] Linux Mint 2.0 was based on Ubuntu 6.10, [citation needed] using Ubuntu's package repositories and using it as a codebase. It then followed its own codebase, building ...
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.