Ngokusho kokuthunyelwe kwebhulogi yeCanonical, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (ukukhishwa kwe-LTS kwakamuva nge-Upstart ngokuzenzakalelayo) kuzosekelwa kuze kube ngu-April 2026, Ubuntu 16.04 - ukukhululwa okusemthethweni kokugcina nge-Unity 7 njengendawo yedeskithophu ezenzakalelayo - kuze kube ngu-2028, Ubuntu 18.04 (yakamuva Ukukhishwa kwe-LTS ngokusekelwa kwe-32-bit architecture) - kuze kube ngu-2030, Ubuntu 20.04 - ukukhishwa kwakamuva ngephakheji yeFirefox endaweni yokugcina emaphakathi - kuze kube ngu-2032. Sekukonke, ukukhishwa kwe-LTS okungu-6 kuzosekelwa ngasikhathi sinye.
I-akhawunti yeCanonical iyadingeka ukuze uthole ukwesekwa iminyaka engu-12 esikhundleni seminyaka emihlanu. Inikeza ukufinyelela kokubhaliselwe kwemishini emi-5.
Ushintsho luzothinta konke ukukhishwa kwe-LTS kwe-Ubuntu, okuhlanganisa nokukhululwa okuzayo kwe-Ubuntu 24.04, okuzosekelwa kuze kube ngu-2036.
Ukuze uqhathanise: I-Red Hat Enterprise Linux inempilo yokusekela yeminyaka eyi-14 (ukusatshalaliswa kwe-3 kusekelwa ngesikhathi esisodwa), ama-clones e-Red Hat Enterprise Linux anempilo yokusekela yeminyaka eyi-10 (ukusabalalisa oku-2 ngesikhathi esisodwa), iminyaka engu-13 ye-Suse Enterprise Linux (ukusabalalisa oku-3 kanyekanye ) kanye neminyaka engu-7 ye-Debian (3 ukusatshalaliswa). Isikhathi sokusekela iminyaka engu-5 ye-CentOS Stream (emibili, ukusekelwa kwe-8 kuzophela maduze), i-Alt Linux SP (eyodwa - ye-8) kanye ne-RedOS (ezimbili, ukusekelwa kwe-7 kuzophela maduze).
Source: linux.org.ru