Ubuntu 20.04 Confirms Its Kernel Choice (And Spoiler: It Isn’t the Latest) Ubuntu 20.04 will ship with Linux 5.4 kernel and not the recent Linux 5.5 release. The decision, confirmed on the Ubuntu kernel mailing list, isn’t exactly a major surprise: Ubuntu 20.04 is the next Long Term Support release of Ubuntu, and Linux 5.4 is the latest Long Term Support release of the Linux kernel. It’s arguably