Canonical launched its new OS, Ubuntu 14.04 which will be the first long term support in two years and will be supported for the next five years. This means that the Linux shop will be supporting this distro until 2019.
The sad part is that you are not going to see Unity 8 in this release, nor will there be any trace of the Mir graphics stack which Canonical is hoping will one day support both its desktop and mobile offerings.
Ubuntu 14.04 is faster, more stable and overall much better than 12.04 and brings far too many update.
A few of the highlights include better support for high-resolution displays, TRIM for solid state drives is now turned on for Intel and Samsung SSDs, Nvidia Optimus support has been improved, and all of the default applications have been updated to their latest stable versions. For the major apps that means Firefox 28, LibreOffice 4.2.3 and Nautilus 3.10. Ubuntu 14.04 is using Linux kernel 3.13.
With 14.04 you can now get menus in windows, minimize windows from the Unity Launcher, customize Launcher menus to suit your needs and even see the full suite of menu items in previously hobbled apps like the Nautilus file browser.
There are many small, easy-to-overlook visual improvements which, while they may not jump out at you, go a long way to making the overall experience of Ubuntu feel much more polished than other Linux distros.
A good example of this is new borderless application windows that get rid of the one pixel, nearly black border element. An equally small, but nice, touch is the new GTK3 window decorations, which mean much smoother anti-aliased corners - something that might not be noticeable without a high-resolution screen, but will be much appreciated if you have one.
In short- Ubuntu 14.04 is not just a great LTS release but one of the best version of Ubuntu yet.
To download Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr- click here
The sad part is that you are not going to see Unity 8 in this release, nor will there be any trace of the Mir graphics stack which Canonical is hoping will one day support both its desktop and mobile offerings.
Ubuntu 14.04 is faster, more stable and overall much better than 12.04 and brings far too many update.
A few of the highlights include better support for high-resolution displays, TRIM for solid state drives is now turned on for Intel and Samsung SSDs, Nvidia Optimus support has been improved, and all of the default applications have been updated to their latest stable versions. For the major apps that means Firefox 28, LibreOffice 4.2.3 and Nautilus 3.10. Ubuntu 14.04 is using Linux kernel 3.13.
With 14.04 you can now get menus in windows, minimize windows from the Unity Launcher, customize Launcher menus to suit your needs and even see the full suite of menu items in previously hobbled apps like the Nautilus file browser.
There are many small, easy-to-overlook visual improvements which, while they may not jump out at you, go a long way to making the overall experience of Ubuntu feel much more polished than other Linux distros.
A good example of this is new borderless application windows that get rid of the one pixel, nearly black border element. An equally small, but nice, touch is the new GTK3 window decorations, which mean much smoother anti-aliased corners - something that might not be noticeable without a high-resolution screen, but will be much appreciated if you have one.
In short- Ubuntu 14.04 is not just a great LTS release but one of the best version of Ubuntu yet.
To download Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr- click here
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