Linux Mint follows the Ubuntu release schedule, so they also have two new versions per year. The next Ubuntu LTS will be released in 2016. Currently, every fourth version of Ubuntu is a LTS, meaning they come out every two years. There are also LTS (Long Term Support) releases, which receive support for five years after they come out. Every release is supported for nine months, after which it reaches “end of life” and stops receiving official updates and patches. We already know the name of the next release: Wily Werewolf, which is coming out in October this year.Ī new version of Ubuntu is released every six months, which comes down to two versions every year, usually in April and October. Current release is 15.04 Vivid Vervet, meaning it was released in April of 2015. The first word is always an adjective, while the other denotes an animal, usually of a rare species.Īt first Ubuntu didn’t follow the alphabetical pattern, so the first two release names started with W and H, respectively, and there was never a release named with either A or C. Ubuntu releases are codenamed alphabetically, with the name consisting of two words starting with the same letter. Ubuntu has always had, and still has, point releases with the version number reflecting the year and the month of the release. At the end of 2014, however, they returned to a point number naming scheme with the 17 LTS release, which is currently in its 17.1 iteration, and 17.2 is planned for June 2015 (it will be called Rafaela). Until 2007, Linux Mint had point releases (2.0, 3.0…) – it switched to major release numbers in 2008 with Linux Mint 5 LTS codenamed Elyssa. Linux Mint traditionally gives every new release a female name that ends in -a. The teams are mostly based in Europe, although there are a few local communities in Asia.īoth Ubuntu and Linux Mint have an established naming scheme for their releases. The leader and founder of the Linux Mint project is Clement Lefebvre, and there are dozens of maintainers and developers organized in teams who help create, translate, test and improve new versions of Linux Mint. On the other hand, Linux Mint doesn’t have an elaborate, multinational structure to back it up, and instead relies primarily on sponsors and donations from users, as well as on partnerships with other companies. The development of Ubuntu and its various sub-projects is controlled by the Ubuntu Technical Board and numerous Engineering Teams in cooperation with the Ubuntu Community Council and local community teams. It’s funded by Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical which has several subsidiaries with more than 500 employees across the world. Ubuntu also has a much bigger team of developers behind it. Here we have the first distinction: Ubuntu is older than Linux Mint. It was based on Ubuntu (technically, on its KDE flavor called Kubuntu) and used Ubuntu’s software repositories. Two years later, in 2006, the first version of Linux Mint came out. In the beginning, there was Debian, and in 2004 Ubuntu was developed as a standalone Linux distribution based on Debian’s unstable version with the same package format (.deb). Perhaps you already know that Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, but how did it all start? We’ll take a look at several aspects of Ubuntu and Linux Mint to find out how they diverge. It’s true for Mint and Ubuntu as well, although the differences might not be as striking as, say, between Ubuntu and Arch Linux. Still, you might be wondering – what’s the difference between Ubuntu and Linux Mint? With so many Linux distributions out there, surely they all must differ from one another in some way.
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