Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Debuts With Support Until 2021 (slideshow) | Linux Today

Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Debuts With Support Until 2021 (slideshow)

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 23, 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 provides users on the desktop, server and cloud with a new operating system that will be supported for five years (until 2021). Among the highlighted capabilities that Canonical is including in the new release is the Snappy transactional update package system.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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