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Blog posts tagged
"20.04 LTS"

didrocks
26 May 2020

ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: what’s new?

Desktop Article

Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. In 19.10, we introduced experimental support on the desktop. As explained, having a ZFS on root option on our desktop was only a first step in what we want to achieve by adopting this combined file system and logical volume manager. I strongly suggest you read ...

Canonical
13 May 2020

OpenStack Ussuri available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS

Cloud and server Article

Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Ussuri on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The most notable enhancements of today’s OpenStack upstream release are stabilisation efforts around the Open Virtual Networking (OVN) driver and the Masakari project which allow organisations to run highly available workloads ...

Igor Ljubuncic
4 May 2020

How to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS today

Desktop Article

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) was officially released on April 23. This is the latest Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release, with security patches and updates available until 2025. If you are currently using an older version of Ubuntu, you may be interested in upgrading. In this tutorial, we will show how to safely upgrade ...

Alex Chalkias
24 April 2020

Ubuntu kernel 5.4: What’s new with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has just arrived. The latest LTS comes with a new version of the Linux kernel – 5.4 – which brings a lot of exciting new features, faster boot times, enhanced performance and security. Additionally, the Canonical kernel team ran benchmark tests to validate the performance improvements of the new kernel. Defining which ...

Canonical
23 April 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives

Canonical announcements Article

April 23rd 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced the general availability of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with a particular emphasis on security and performance. “Accelerating open source globally is our mission. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is the new state of the art open source platform for the enterprise and the entrepreneur,” said Mark ...

Rhys Davies
22 April 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 survey results

Cloud and server Article

In December 2019, we asked you what you thought were the most important things for us to include in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (now live!) 21,862 people took the survey, and have since become a part of our decision-making processes. We would like to thank each and everyone who spent their time to take this survey, ...

Canonical
21 April 2020

2004 to 20.04 LTS: Ubuntu in popular culture

Desktop Article

When we launched Ubuntu back in 2004, our mission to make well-supported, free open source software available to everyone, everywhere was a bold one – but today, Ubuntu is one of the world’s most popular operating systems. One consequence of that popularity is that Ubuntu has very much entered the public consciousness, and its influence ...

Rhys Davies
17 April 2020

What is an Ubuntu LTS release?

Desktop Article

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new Ubuntu lifecycle. Come April 23rd 2020, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be available. It will be the first LTS version of Ubuntu since the 18.04 release, and in this blog, I want to answer the common question, what is an LTS? For a deeper look ...