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 (EOL) date.

Ubuntu is developed by British company Canonical, and a community of other developers, under a meritocratic governance model. As of October 2022, the most-recent release is 22.10 ('Kinetic Kudu'), and the current long-term support release is 22.04 ('Jammy Jellyfish'). Ubuntu is released every six months, with long-term support (LTS) releases every two years. Ubuntu's default desktop changed back from the in-house Unity to GNOME after nearly 6.5 years in 2017 upon the release of version 17.10. Ubuntu is a popular operating system for cloud computing, with support for OpenStack. All of the editions can run on a computer alone, or in a virtual machine.

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

Ubuntu ( / ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː/ ( listen) uu- BUUN-too) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Free software + some proprietary device drivers

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