Ubuntu 16.04 lts was officially released

The wait for the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has already ended and Canonical has finally released the new version of its Ubuntu Linux operating system for PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets and smartphones.

Ubuntu 16.04 is the new and more advanced version of Ubuntu, which was nicknamed Xenial Xerus by Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth.

This is a version with long-term support that will receive patches and security updates for five years. But best of all, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) uses the Linux kernel 4.4, which in turn will receive fixes and improvements for several years.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS design

Visually speaking, not much has changed since the previous version of Ubntu, except for minor graphical modifications to the icons and the Unity interface, which can now be integrated with the file and device manager.

Also, the new Unity interface brings support for formatting removable devices from the quick list, and offers support for GTK applications that use headers.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS improvements

Among the main improvements of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS we can mention that most of the included packages were updated to the latest version at the time of release.

For example, the operating system now brings LibreOffice 5.1.2, Mozilla Firefox 45.0.2, Python 3.5, OpenSSH 7.2p2, PHP 7.0, MySQL 5.7, GCC 5.3, Binutils 2.26, Glibc 2.23, Apt 1.2 and much of the GNOME 3.18 stack..

All pre-installed packs were ported to use the WebKit 2 engine. Likewise, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the first version of the operating system not to include the package manager Ubuntu Software Center created by Canonical, since it was replaced by the GNOME Software app from the GNOME Stack, although it was renamed Ubuntu Software so as not to confuse users. users.

Among other things, there is also the support to install snap packages, and it seems that there are more languages ​​with default support in the new installations of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

You can download the ISO images of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) for 32 and 64 bit PCs right now from the Ubuntu.com web portal. If you upgrade from a previous version, don't miss our tutorials on how to upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10.