Even if Canonical hasn’t remade the consumer desktop with Ubuntu or made much of a dent with Ubuntu as a phone or tablet OS — at least, not compared to the way Google has with both Android and Chrome — there’s no denying the presence of Ubuntu as a server.
With the release of Ubuntu 14.04 on Thursday, Canonical is attempting to further define how it stands out from enterprise-centric distributions like Red Hat even as it shares features typically associated with Red Hat.