Including me(10.04 LTS@work), minority of people use Linux desktop at work. Now a days we can see many big companies use LTS version of Ubuntu in their work computers. In order to boost this growing trend, Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, plans on getting many companies to switch though with its next long term support (LTS) release. Canonical has announced that it would be extending the support and maintenance period for the April 2012 LTS Ubuntu Linux release for desktop users from three years to five years.
In his blog, Ubuntu’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth mentioned regarding this. “We need to do justice to the fact that 12.04 LTS will be the preferred desktop for many of the world’s biggest Linux desktop deployments, in some cases exceeding half a million desktops in a single institution. So 12.04 is also an opportunity to ensure that our desktop is manageable at scale, that it can be locked down in the ways institutions need, and that it can be upgraded from 10.04 LTS smoothly as promised. Support for multiple monitors will improve, since that’s a common workplace requirement.”
As Unity has became the default desktop interface for latest Ubuntu versions, according to Shuttleworth, “The nail-biting transitions to Unity and Gnome 3 are behind us, so this cycle is an opportunity to put perfection front and center. … That’s an opportunity to work through the whole desktop interface and make sure we’re using exactly the right weight in each place, bringing the work we’ve been doing for several cycles fully into focus.”
