Ubuntu

Supported until
Version Code name Release date
Desktop Server
4.10 Warty Warthog 2004-10-20 2006-04-30
5.04 Hoary Hedgehog 2005-04-08 2006-10-31
5.10 Breezy Badger 2005-10-13 2007-04-13
6.06 LTS Dapper Drake 2006-06-01 2009-07-14 2011-06
6.10 Edgy Eft 2006-10-26 2008-04-25
7.04 Feisty Fawn 2007-04-19 2008-10-19
7.10 Gutsy Gibbon 2007-10-18 2009-04-18
8.04 LTS Hardy Heron 2008-04-24 2011-05-12 2013-04
8.10 Intrepid Ibex 2008-10-30 2010-04-30
9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 2009-04-23 2010-10-23
9.10 Karmic Koala 2009-10-29 2011-04-30
10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx 2010-04-29 2013-04 2015-04
10.10 Maverick Meerkat 2010-10-10 2012-04
11.04 Natty Narwhal 2011-04-28 2012-10
11.10 Oneiric Ocelot 2011-10-? 2013-04
Colour Meaning
Red Release no longer supported
Green Release still supported
Blue Future release
Each Ubuntu release has a version number that consists of the year

Debian has made eleven major stable releases:[11]

Legend
Release no longer supported
Release still supported
Future release
Supported
Version Code name Release date Ports Packages Notes
until
1996-09 dpkg, ELF transition, Linux
1.1 buzz 17 June 1996 1 474
[65] 2.0[11]
1996[citati
1.2 rex 12 December 1996 1 848 -
on needed]
1997[citati
1.3 bo 5 June 1997 1 974 -
on needed]
glibc transition, new
2.0 hamm 24 July 1998 2 ≈ 1,500 1998
architecture: m68k[11]
 APT, new architectures:
2.1 slink 9 March 1999 4 ≈ 2,250 2000-12
alpha, sparc[11]
New architectures: arm,
2.2 potato 15 August 2000 6 ≈ 3,900 2003-04
powerpc[66]
New architectures: hppa,
3.0 woody 19 July 2002 11 ≈ 8,500 2006-08 ia64, mips, mipsel,
s390[11]
2008- Modular installer, semi-
3.1 sarge 6 June 2005 11 ≈ 15,400
04[45] official amd64 support.
New architecture: amd64,
dropped architecture: m68k.
2010-02- [68] Graphical installer, udev
4.0 etch 8 April 2007 11 ≈ 18,000
15[67] transition, modular X.Org
transition. Latest update 4.0r9
was released 2010-05-22[69]
New architecture/binary ABI:
armel.[72] SPARC 32-bit
14 February 2009[ 11+1[ ≈ 23,000[ hardware support dropped.
5.0[70] lenny[71] TBA[45]
48] A] 31] [73] Full Eee PC support.[74]
Latest update 5.0.8 was
released 2011-01-22.[75]
New architectures/kernels:
kfreebsd-i386,
kfreebsd-amd64, dropped
architectures: alpha, hppa,
OABI arm.[34] eglibc instead
6 February 9+2[ ≈ 29,000[ of glibc.[78] Dependency-
6.0[76] squeeze[77] TBA
2011[34] B] 34] based boot sequence, which
allows for parallel init script
processing.[79] Remove old
libraries such as GTK 1.[80]
Default Linux kernel purged
of non-free firmware.[10]
Remove old libraries such as
Qt3.[81]
7.0[64] wheezy[64] ca. 2013 TBA TBA TBA
alpha and hppa removal from
unstable/experimental [82]

A 11 architectures + 1 additional ARM binary ABI (armel)[31]

B 9 architectures with Linux kernel + 2 architectures with kernel of FreeBSD[34]
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openSUSE
The openSUSE project aims to release a new version every eight months. It supports each release with
critical updates for two years from the release date. Starting with version 11.2, critical updates will be
provided for two releases plus two months, which at the current release cycle of 8 months would result
in a support lifetime of 18 months.[23]
RedRelease no longer supportedColor
Green
Meani Release still supported
ng
Blue Future release
Project Name Version Release date Kernel version
7/941994-07-??1.0.9S.u.S.E. Linux
(Slackware based)

3/94 1994-03-?? 1.0.0

11/94 1994-11-??  ?.?.?

4/95 1995-04-?? 1.2.9
1995-08-?? ?.?.?
8/95
11/95 1995-11-?? 1.2.13
4.2 1996-05-?? 1.2.13
4.3 1996-09-??  ?.?.?
1997-05-?? ?.?.?
S.u.S.E. Linux
5.0 1997-07-?? 2.0.30
5.1 1997-10-?? 2.0.32
5.2 1998-03-23 2.0.33
5.3 1998-09-10 2.0.35
6.0 1998-12-21 2.0.36
6.1 1999-04-07 2.2.6
6.2 1999-08-12 2.2.10
6.3 1999-11-25 2.2.13
6.4 2000-03-09 2.2.14
7.0 2000-09-27 2.2.16
SuSE Linux
7.1 2001-01-24 2.2.18
7.2 2001-06-15 2.4.4
7.3 2001-10-13 2.4.9
8.0 2002-04-22 2.4.18
8.1 2002-09-30 2.4.19
8.2 2003-04-07 2.4.20
SUSE Linux 9.0 2003-10-15 2.4.21
9.1 2004-04-23 2.6.4
9.2 2004-10-25 2.6.8
9.3 2005-04-16 2.6.11
 10.0 2005-10-06 2.6.13
10.1 2006-05-11 2.6.16
10.1 remastered[24] 2006-10-13 2.6.16
10.2 2006-12-07 2.6.18
10.3 2007-10-04 2.6.22
11.0 2008-06-19 2.6.25
openSUSE 11.1 2008-12-18 2.6.27
11.2 2009-11-12 2.6.31
11.3 2010-07-15 [20] 2.6.34
11.4 2011-03-10 2.6.37