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LinuxNews July 11, 2026 2 min read

Canonical Extends Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS Support to Ten Years

Canonical's September 2021 decision to extend Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and 16.04 Xenial Xerus support to a full decade, and what it signaled about Ubuntu's long-term commitment to LTS releases.

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Shell & TerminalNews July 11, 2026 2 min read

Ubuntu Adopts Dash as Default /bin/sh, Exposing Bashisms Everywhere

Ubuntu 6.10 switched its default /bin/sh from Bash to the much stricter Dash in October 2006, purely for faster boot-time script execution — and immediately surfaced years of accumulated non-portable shell scripts across the ecosystem.

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