Linux distribution
Ubuntu 21.04
Not a fan of release names, Mayank Sharma is even more perplexed by the one given to this release, since hippos aren’t known to be hairy.
IN BRIEF
Managed by a for-profit company, Ubuntu is one of the most wellknown Linux distros. It primarily targets the desktop, but is also at home on edge devices, and in the cloud. Together with its official flavours, the Ubuntu releases satisfy a whole lot of use cases.
SPECS
Minimum CPU: 2GHz
Memory: 4GB
Hard
disk
space: 25GB
Build: 64-bit x86, arm64, armHF
U buntu usually uses regular releases to introduce new developments that it hopes to stabilise by the time the next long-term release (LTS) rolls around. Yet despite the usual slew of updates, version 21.04 is rather light on show-stopping features.