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2. Ubuntu - Wikipedia

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   Ubuntu is built on Debian's architecture and infrastructure, and comprises Linux server, desktop and discontinued phone and tablet operating system versions. [30] Ubuntu releases updated versions predictably every six months, [31] and each release receives free support for nine months (eighteen months prior to 13.04) [32] with security fixes, high-impact bug fixes and conservative ...

3. List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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   Debian-based. Debian family tree. Debian (a portmanteau of the names "Deb" and "Ian") Linux is a distribution that emphasizes free software. It supports many hardware platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format [ 2] and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt or synaptic).

4. Ubuntu version history - Wikipedia

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   Ubuntu releases are made semiannually by Canonical Ltd, its developers, using the year and month of the release as a version number. The first Ubuntu release, for example, was Ubuntu 4.10 and was released on 20 October 2004. [ 1][ 2] Consequently, version numbers for future versions are provisional; if the release is delayed until a different ...

5. Linux - Wikipedia

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   A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system, deriving much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a monolithic kernel, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, access to the peripherals, and file systems.

6. Linux distribution - Wikipedia

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   Ubuntu, one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions. A Linux distribution [a] (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.

7. Comparison of Linux distributions - Wikipedia

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   This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The specific problem is: Active distributions composed entirely of free software (Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre, gNewSense, Guix System, LibreCMC, Musix GNU+Linux, Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, and Trisquel) need information in all sub categories, #General is complete.

8. Canonical (company) - Wikipedia

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   Canonical Ltd. Canonical Ltd.[ 4] is a privately held computer software company based in London, England. It was founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Canonical employs staff in more than 70 countries and maintains offices in London ...

9. Snap (software) - Wikipedia

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   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.