Ubuntu

Ubuntu è la distribuzione Linux basata su Debian sviluppata da Canonical disponibile gratuitamente (tramite il supporto della comunità) oppure professionalmente a pagamento. Il desktop manager utilizzato è Unity, sviluppato dalla stessa Canonical, ma sono disponibili anche gli altri desktop manager (Gnome, KDE, XFCE…)

Versione 20.04

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce our eighth long-term support
release, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core.

Codenamed "Focal Fossa", 20.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at
work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 5.4 based Linux kernel,
with additional support for Wireguard VPN, AUFS5, and improved support
for IBM, Intel, Raspberry Pi and AMD hardware.

Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS features the latest version of the GNOME
desktop environment, 3.36. Notable changes from 18.04 LTS include
performance improvements, a new lock screen design, and support for
fractional scaling under X11. 20.04 LTS also features a new
look-and-feel: the “Yaru” theme, available in both light and dark
variants.

20.04 LTS also brings support for installing an Ubuntu desktop system on
top of ZFS. The latest version brings performance enhancements and
optional encryption support. Zsys, Ubuntu’s ZFS system tool, provides
automated system and user state saving. Tight integration with GRUB
allows a user to revert to any system state on boot and go back in time
to pave the way to a bulletproof Ubuntu Desktop.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS includes Python 3.8 as the default version but Python
2.7 is still available in the Ubuntu archive.

Ubuntu Server brings major updates to industry-standard packages
available on private clouds, public clouds, containers or bare metal in
your datacentre. Included are an updated HA/Clustering stack, PHP 7.4,
Ruby 2.7, Postgres 12, MySQL 8 and updated OpenSSH with U2F support for
security.

The newest Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE,
Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu are also being released today.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• 64 bit (2,5GB): http://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso
• 64 bit torrent: http://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
• server (908MB): http://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubuntu-20.04-live-server-amd64.iso

Il sito web del produttore è: http://www.ubuntu.com

Screenshot

Ubuntu 19.10

Conclusioni

Questa versione è una long term.