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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Be Dubbed “Focal Fossa,” Slated for Release on April 23rd

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be Canonical’s 32nd release of Ubuntu Linux, one of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions in the world, and the company has revealed today the codename as “Focal Fossa,” along with the release schedule and the final release date of the upcoming operating system. But before we go into any details about Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’s development milestones, we’d like to inform the reader about the “Fossa” codename, which, according to Wikipedia, is a cat-like, carnivorous mammal regularly found in Madagascar, and it’s related to the mongoose family.

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