2024 is a very special year for the world鈥檚 most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu; it is its 20th anniversary, originally being made available in October 2004 with the release of Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog. To celebrate its anniversary, Canonical is dropping Ubuntu 24.04 LTS codenamed Noble Numbat next month and today we鈥檝e got our first look at the new wallpapers.

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Fuwafuwa Nanbatto-san by @amaral

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Little numbat boy by @azskalt

Province of the South of France by @orbitelambda

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Monument Valley (Arizona) by @orbitelambda

Mount Fuji, Japan by @amaral

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Northern Lights by @mizuno-as

Lightbulb Rainbow by @audioaddict

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Clouds by @moka-hun

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This selection of wallpapers will feature in the upcoming Ubuntu release in a potentially higher quality than above. If you would like to check out the rest of the wallpapers that were submitted as part of the Wallpaper Competition, just head to the Ubuntu Discourse thread where you can view and download the entries.

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is due for release on April 25, 2024. It will get standard support until May 31, 2029, and extended security maintenance until April 25, 2034. The long life of Long Term Support (LTS) releases makes them ideal for people who just want to install an operating system and then get down to work rather than perform upgrades every year or so as is the case with the interim releases.

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If you are keen to use the upcoming version of Ubuntu, a beta is currently scheduled to be released on April 4. As this will contain bugs, it goes without saying that you should not install it on a production machine until the final release.

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Source: Ubuntu

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