Netro Support: Linux


Popular LTS (Long Term Support) Linux distributions with 5 years or more of security updates:

Ubuntu
20.04 (Focal Fossa) or 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
- Wikipedia: Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Server
- Release Notes 20.04.2 LTS (or later)
- Release Notes 18.04.5 LTS (or later)
- Release Notes 16.04.7 LTS (or later)
- Server & Installation Guide e.g. 20.04 LTS (PDF's) 1.3/1.5 MB
- Releases Current releases & End of Standard Support dates.
  16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) reaching End of Standard Support Apr-21

Debian
10 (Buster) or 9 (Stretch)
- Wikipedia: Debian
- Debian
- Release Notes for Debian 10 (buster)
- Release notes for Debian 9 (stretch)
- Releases 10.8 (Buster) or 9.13 (Stretch) or later.
- Debian Long Term Support
- Security advisories
  8 (Jessie) reached EOL (End-of-life) 30-Jun-20

CentOS
8 (Ootpa) or 7 (Maipo)
- Wikipedia: CentOS
- Wikipedia: RHEL
- CentOS Project
- Release notes 8.3-2011 (or later)
- Release notes 7.9-2009 (or later)
- RHEL Product Documentation
  Please note: 8 (Ootpa) reaching End of Lifetime (EOL) 31-Dec-21

FreeBSD
Stable/12 or 11
- Wikipedia: FreeBSD
- FreeBSD
- Supported releases

Resources
- Wikipedia: Linux
- DistroWatch
- Usage statistics and market share of Linux for websites

Links
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Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Updated Mar-21