On the DVD

Canonical designed Ubuntu Server to begin with a lean initial installation, adding integrated deployment and application modeling technologies for simple deployment and management at scale. They claim that whether "you want to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Kubernetes cluster, or a 50,000-node render farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value scale-out performance available."

Ubuntu Server 19.10 delivers:

• Support for nine months until July 2020
• Linux 5.3 kernel
• Updates to Qemu (v4.0), libvirt (v5.4), MySQL (v8.0), PostgreSQL (v11), and more
• A fresh set of fixes and refreshes to the installer
• A new Ubuntu Advantage service experience