20 Facts About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is officially released in three editions: Desktop, Server, and Core for Internet of things devices and robots.

Ubuntu is a popular operating system for cloud computing, with support for OpenStack.

Ubuntu is released every six months, with long-term support releases every two years.

Ubuntu is developed by British company Canonical, and a community of other developers, under a meritocratic governance model.

Canonical provides security updates and support for each Ubuntu release, starting from the release date and until the release reaches its designated end-of-life date.

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Ubuntu is named after the Nguni philosophy of, which Canonical indicates means "humanity to others" with a connotation of "I am what I am because of who we all are".

Ubuntu is built on Debian's architecture and infrastructure, and comprises Linux server, desktop and discontinued phone and tablet operating system versions.

Ubuntu packages are based on packages from Debian's unstable branch, which are synchronised every six months.

Many Ubuntu developers are maintainers of key packages within Debian.

Ubuntu cooperates with Debian by pushing changes back to Debian, although there has been criticism that this does not happen often enough.

On 12 March 2009, Ubuntu announced developer support for third-party cloud management platforms, such as those used at Amazon EC2.

Default installation of Ubuntu contains a wide range of software that includes LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Transmission, and several lightweight games such as Sudoku and Mines.

Each Ubuntu release has a version number that consists of the year and month number of the release.

Commonly, Ubuntu releases are referred to using only the adjective portion of the code name; for example, the 18.

Ubuntu Desktop is the variant officially recommended for most users.

Ubuntu Core is the sole exception as it only has access to packages in the Snap Store.

Ubuntu has support for OpenStack, with Eucalyptus to OpenStack migration tools added by Canonical.

Wikimedia Foundation data for September 2013 shows that Ubuntu generated the most page requests to Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia, among recognizable Linux distributions.

Ubuntu was awarded the Reader Award for best Linux distribution at the 2005 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in London, received favorable reviews in online and print publications, and has won InfoWorld's 2007 Bossie Award for Best Open Source Client OS.

Chris DiBona, the program manager for open-source software at Google, said "I think Ubuntu has captured people's imaginations around the Linux desktop, " and "If there is a hope for the Linux desktop, it would be them".