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20 Years Of Ubuntu: Canonical Celebrates With Upcoming 24.10 - And It's Outstanding As Usual

ZDNet, Monday, September 30th, 2024

If Ubuntu is your jam, you'll be excited to know it's the 20th anniversary of the first official release of the Linux desktop OS, and 24.10 has plenty to offer.

Ah, Ubuntu. I remember those early days well. Back in 2004, I made the switch from Red Hat Linux (before there was Fedora and after using it since 1997) to this upstart distribution and never looked back. Since then, I've used only Ubuntu or a Ubuntu-based distribution for my primary OS.

With good reason.

Ubuntu is as stable and user-friendly as an OS can be. And with a clockwork-like release scheduled, I can always count on when a new version is about to hit.

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