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Ubuntu Software will now only install packages from the Snap Store and provide an option for selecting the desired release channel to install from. This release also ended all support for the 32-bit architecture. [255] [256] DEB files now open in Archive Manager by default.
Most Ubuntu editions and flavours simply install a different set of default packages compared to the standard Ubuntu Desktop. Since they share the same package repositories, all of the same software is available for each of them. [120] [121] Ubuntu Core [a] is the sole exception as it only has access to packages in the Snap Store. [122]
Debian packages as per Debian; TurnKey packages for life of current major version (plus backports per request) 2023-09-14 Debian Social Contract and DFSG: Debian server based software appliance library aiming to balance security and ease of use None Active Ubuntu and Derivatives [96] Canonical Ltd. Canonical Ltd. 2004 24.10 [97] 24.04.1 LTS [98]
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.
The server package must be installed on a Linux host. The X2go project has been packaged for Fedora beginning with version F20 (2013). [11] It is also included in the official Ubuntu release starting from 17.04 and Debian Wheezy releases. [12]
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 ...
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 ...