This image contains the latest Ubuntu Desktop (non-LTS) release (for x86_64) using the GNOME desktop environment. The image will be updated for each new (non-LTS) Ubuntu release. The current image is based on Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur. For LTS releases, please see the Panoptesoft product page on the AWS Marketplace for available LTS listings.

VNC is already installed and configured to launch at startup so you can access the instance graphically. The image provides full OpenGL (with GLX) support for running 3D applications. The image can be launched on CPU only or GPU backed instance types. The correct settings will automatically be loaded depending on the hardware, and any instances with NVIDIA GPUs will use official NVIDIA drivers. This allows you to fully utilize the GPU instances for any graphics intensive applications.