Canonical makes Ubuntu Pro free for up to five machines

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Kernel live-patching and a full decade of software updates

for five years, but for now it's still privately held. The key difference between Canonical and the two largest enterprise Linux vendors, SUSE and Red Hat, is that Canonical's main distro is free; SUSE and Red Hat both sponsor free distributions, openSUSE and Fedora respectively, but these come with only community support.receive updates until four weeks after the latest version is out. As new Fedora versions are approximately semiannual, that means 13 months of updates.

It could well be that Canonical has some telemetry about what its paying customers are running, and knows that very few are running tools from, and therefore feels able to cover this substantial maintenance workload. At a very rough estimate, there are some 60,000 packages in the

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