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With Ubuntu 18.04 you should use ROS Melodic as it is primarily targeted at the Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) release. I guess when all the packages are added and since it will have a long term support it will become recommended at some point. At the moment ROS Kinetic is the most used one and has a number of packages that are probably still not ported to the newer distributions.

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