Ubuntu 14.04 released

http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/

by pjvds • 12 years ago

279 126 12 years ago

releases.ubuntu.com

Most DC's are now serving the latest page. Only exception I found is the one for the Nordic region, this still serves the beta release.

neverminder• 12 years ago

I don't know about everyone else, but for me "released" means I can download it from the official location - http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop and that is not the case yet.

buckbova• 12 years ago

Title should be changed to:

Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) Beta 2

Edit: I see the updated title now.

pjvds4• 12 years ago

Not all data center serve the latest page yet.

bencoder• 12 years ago

I'm getting Beta 2, from the UK.

For some reason your other comment explaining this is [dead]. Can't see any reason why though.

pjvds4• 12 years ago

Amsterdam, The Netherlands is now serving the latest release.

ziggamon• 12 years ago

Tried to find some sort of release notes, best thing I could find was this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes

If someone has a better link, please share!

munchor• 12 years ago

There's a video here[1] with some of the new features. It's not very comprehensive though.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/04/10-things-to-do-after-ins...

CyberShadow• 12 years ago

Did I understand correctly that at 1:25, that video is demonstrating the introduction of "live window resizing"?

I haven't been following Unity closely, but I thought this feature was present in OS GUIs since about 1997?

plg• 12 years ago

it still shows beta at the link given above

floor_2• 12 years ago

Does Ubuntu still shill out personal data to Amazon?

zanny• 12 years ago

They never gave out personal information, they just covered your dash with ads and clicking them gave Canonical affiliate revenue. They routed the searches through their servers to prevent Amazon from associating searches and IPs when they go to the actual site.

And I (think?) this is the release where dash ads are default off.

ihsw• 12 years ago

There is no proof that they're not passing that information onto Amazon, and it's just a policy on their end. Policies can change and then we will have no recourse.

The dash shouldn't be sending any user information to begin with.

I get that Canonical needs to get profitable fast, so personally I think they should take the RedHat road and release 'Ubuntu Enterprise' or something to that effect.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/how-red-hat-killed-i...

The 14.04 release has quite clearly shown that they have the expertise and industry collaboration to get the ball rolling on that.

gcb04• 12 years ago

They send to Amazon what you type. And default was always on. And in latest versions option to disable was removed, you had to remove one package because "Ubuntu is about simplicity"

celebril• 12 years ago

Not all monetisation is "Shilling", floor_.

If people could stop being so paranoid about nothing (the data is anonimised before sent for goodness' sake) then technology can advance much easier and quicker.

jff• 12 years ago

Just lie back and think of England

null_ptr• 12 years ago

What does sending your local search terms to Canonical and Amazon do to advance technology, exactly? All these desperate attempts at monetization off users' privacy are disgusting, and it's sad to see companies big and small stoop to that level.

DanBC3• 12 years ago

It is weird to see the total difference between privacy today (you have none and you have no expectation of any and anyone who has your data will do what they like with it) and what was happening in the early 2000s.

I get that companies feel the need to extract usable data to help fix problems (a sensible data dump is much more useful than a customer filling in a form with wierd information); or to sell anonymosed information.

But customers are right to be untrusting. Some companies have shown that they are not competant to keep data secure. Some companies have shown that they do not care about privacy.

bsg752• 12 years ago

At this point this is a link to beta 2 from March.

sp332• 12 years ago

  ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso             17-Apr-2014 01:35  964M

Seems ok now?

bsg752• 12 years ago

It is showing for me now.

bluedino• 12 years ago

Do people actually use jigdo?

codecondo• 12 years ago

The design of the homepage suggests that, indeed, people actually use jigdo.

gcb04• 12 years ago

No.

gcb04• 12 years ago

Yes.

ateevchopra• 12 years ago

Its great to see another LTS. Finally time to update 12.04 version.

keithpeter5• 12 years ago

Might want to wait until the first 'delta' (14.04.1) round June if you are happy with 12.04 for a few more months and your machines are used in production. Rough edges smoothed &c

If it is just a personal machine, have at it, I was using the Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 beta for some weeks with no major issues.

ilyanep• 12 years ago

I'm still on 12.04 LTS and haven't been paying much attention to the updates since then. Are there any huge changes in between as far as the general day-to-day experience?

jcastro5• 12 years ago

Just a reminder that we are now publishing Vagrant boxes as well:

- https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu

nirvdrum3• 12 years ago

Any chance you'll be publishing VMware boxes as well?

jcastro5• 12 years ago

afaict we don't have any plans, but you're not the first person to ask today, I'll ask around and see.

mdaniel• 12 years ago

My understanding of Vagrant is that it is a meta virtualization format, so in theory one could create a Vagrantfile that points at the aforementioned vagrant boxes and it will use VMware to do the local provisioning (the Vagrant boxes even use the VMDK disk format, which should make it even easier). In theory :-)

gary4gar• 12 years ago

Downloading via Bittorrent! Getting 12.04 LTS with great speeds.

wcchandler• 12 years ago

Magnet URI for desktop amd64:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4d753474429d817b80ff9e0c441ca660ec5d2450&dn=ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftorrent.ubuntu.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fipv6.torrent.ubuntu.com%3A6969%2Fannounce

hkphooey• 12 years ago

Anybody know when Xubuntu and Lubuntu will be updated to 14.04?

Is it usually the same day or a few days later?

rattray• 12 years ago

Lubuntu looks released, Xubuntu has a final beta out [0]

[0] http://xubuntu.org/news/tag/14-04/

bainsfather• 12 years ago

xubuntu is now out also: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/

beaumartinez2• 12 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04 comes with Python 3.4, but unfortunately, it doesn't bundle the ensurepip module (and a host of others). By the looks of things, the idea was to use Ubuntu's own packages instead[1], but it didn't make it in time.

This means that pip being bundled by default—one of Python 3.4 coolest features—is missing. Trying to create a virtualenv using the bundled virtualenv module fails as well. Big mess.[2]

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/3.4.0-2ubuntu...

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/+bug/129...

01613• 12 years ago

This is a real shame. Python 3.4 and bundled pip support was high on my list of reasons of why I should upgrade to 14.04 sooner rather than later. I think I'll wait now until this is smoothed out.

id• 12 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04.1 is scheduled for July 24th.

duaneb2• 12 years ago

How did they ship this? It's clearly an unfinished release.

SkyMarshal• 12 years ago

Better to stick to their bi-annual schedule, even if it means shipping a usable but not-quite-polished release, then polishing it in subsequent months. The previous versions, from 12.04 to 13.10, are more than adequate for anyone who can't risk upgrading to what is effectively a beta or release candidate.

sciurus• 12 years ago

For more information on how Debian, Fedora, and others are dealing with ensurepip see "Distributions wrestle with pip" at https://lwn.net/Articles/591421/

YokoZar• 12 years ago

Yes, you still have to apt-get install python3-pip, just like older releases. This doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world though.

beaumartinez2• 12 years ago

Except even then Python 3.4's bundled virtualenv module is still broken. The omission of the ensurepip module isn't an inconvenience, it breaks Python 3.4 functionality.

MetaCosm• 12 years ago

It is a problem, on one set of packages that are a part of a rather large distro, not sure I would consider it a show stopper, just an annoyance.

Yes, Python is a mess. But, Python has been a horrific mess for years now, on multiple distros. I just ended up giving up on Python. Distro problems, 2/3 split, GIL and various other buggy nonsense slowly just reduced its value versus other languages.

pekk• 12 years ago

This isn't about Python being a mess, it is about an Ubuntu release messing it up. You know there's a problem when you lose important features you'd get with ./configure; make; make install

g8oz• 12 years ago

For those of you who find the Unity desktop to be an overweight example of "designer" solipsism, try out the alternative light weight desktops like Lubuntu (LXDE based) or Xubuntu (XFCE based).

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop or sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

keithpeter5• 12 years ago

I think you are being downvoted because of tone rather than fact.

Facts: Ubuntu desktop releases are available in a variety of 'flavours' including Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Gnome Ubuntu. The Kubuntu release has external sponsorship from Blue Systems. There is also UbuntuStudio that packages a lot of music/sound/graphics/video applications with a slightly remodelled XFCE4 UI. LTS status is limited to 3 years for the 'flavours' as opposed to 5 years for the Unity based Ubuntu, still one year overlap with the next LTS.

You can, as go8z says, install a range of desktop sessions on stock Ubuntu, but you do end up with a certain amount of duplication e.g. power manager, mousepad/Abiword and gedit/LibreOffice &c.

Plenty of choice so we can get our work done. It is all here...

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/

abhinavk• 12 years ago

Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio also get 5 years of support.

skriticos2• 12 years ago

In fact I did that in the past weeks after being a bit weary of the Unity 8 situation. So I grabbed Debian testing and installed it. First I tried Gnome 3, then KDE and XFCE and boy, are they all ugly.

I started with Gnome 3.10 (after ignoring it for most of it's existence except once in the early time) and it failed to register simple mouse clicks in a Steam game (the firs thing I tried). It's also sluggish and ugly and hard to get anything productive done.

So I went to KDE 4.11 next. And it's as ugly as ever. The huge sound indicator at the bottom is just so ugly. And then they have what looks like a Start menu thingy to launch applications. Oh boy, that felt odd. Still miles better than Gnome 3, but nothing I'd like to see on a daily basis.

XFCE is just too bare-bone for me. It's OK in looks, but the task bars are just clumsy.

So I'm probably sticking to Ubuntu for the next LTS cycle too and see what comes of the Unity 8 desktop. Sad to see there are no real contenders.

vizzah• 12 years ago

You can easily customize everything on the task bar and the task bar itself. I could neither stand the sizes/fonts/ugliness but after several days of tweaking it no longer looks like KDE at all and I am very happy with it :)

mdellabitta• 12 years ago

To my eye, XFCE in Xubuntu looks a lot better than in ootb Debian. Might want to give that a whirl.

Also you check out tint2, which is a nice 3rd party panel also used in Crunchbang.

fit2rule• 12 years ago

xfce + kupfer = solution. Of course, you have to have a "Meta-Space <type first letters of app>" style of interaction mode, but I'm finding it quite an acceptable DE/Shell environment to replace the horrible, stinking mess of Unity.

bebop2• 12 years ago

Also if you are looking for Ubuntu with Gnome 3 by default: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/relea...

dmix• 12 years ago

As someone who loves window-manager designer solipsism as much as the stark minimalism of terminals, Gnome has improved quite a bit recently and I've come to much prefer it over Unity (and a suitable replacement for OSX). I'd normally lean towards something lightweight such as XFCE, but proper Gnome 3 support is necessary.

orik• 12 years ago

Can anyone comment on the difference between the PC and the Mac 64 bit images?

dignati• 12 years ago

Probably a bunch of different drivers

pjvds4• 12 years ago

amd64 images use BIOS or UEFI. Macs use a variant of EFI (an earlier version of what's now called UEFI), they apparently can't cope with multi-catalog CDs and the MAC variant images fix this.

See: http://askubuntu.com/a/40480/117820

DanBC3• 12 years ago

Can anyone talk about how well a Macbook Pro copes with the UEFI version of Ubuntu?

Fedora 20 on a 2009 13" MBP is an unfun experience. Using the UEFI boot means you get broken graphics drivers. Using the regular boot means you have to hold boot to get the image boot menu every time you power on. (I think - I could easily be wrong). You have to make sure the disk is blessed otherwise there's a large boot delay. (Fedora 20 doesn't use the right Broadcom drivers which means some interesti g catch22 about needing to connect to the internet to get WIFI drivers but not being able to because lol no drivers.)

I don't want to rant about Fedora when most of this is my lack of knowledge. But the combination of Gnome3 and this kind of fiddling around was odd and reminded me of a much older install experience. (Having said all that, Fedora 20 is nice and does have some really nice features.)

slavik81• 12 years ago

The Mac images are BIOS-only and are for older Macs that don't support EFI. Modern Macs can use the regular PC images, so the name is a little misleading. For example, from the Late-2013 MacBook Pro Ubuntu 13.10 install guide:

"The 2013 MacBook Pro can recognize multi-boot CD image (e.g., Ubuntu's official iso). So there is no need to use the "mac" iso image for installation. In fact, I recommend you avoid the "mac" iso image because it is a BIOS-boot only image and will force the Mac to enter BIOS emulation mode to install Ubuntu, which will need to be fixed to boot in its native EFI mode."

source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro11-1/Saucy

foobarqux2• 12 years ago

If you use Emacs and depend on Ctrl-space note that you may have to disable the keybinding in ibus-setup and restart the ibus daemon. This bug was claimed to be fixed but it wasn't for me. However I'm running Xmonad with some Gnome utilities.

_Satya• 12 years ago

The ibus in Ubuntu 14.04 uses Super+Space to switch between languages. Not the Ctrl+Space anymore. Nevertheless, it's easy to change it to any other key combination.

foobarqux2• 12 years ago

Mine was bound to Ctrl-space in ibus-setup but as I said I have a non-standard config.

ForHackernews2• 12 years ago

What's the deal with this "Ubuntu Browser" being set as the default?

I feel like Canonical has a serious Not Invented Here problem, where they keep trying to re-invent the wheel by writing their own desktop environment, window manager, browser, startup system, etc.

0x4202• 12 years ago

Rebranding stuff isn't Not Invented Here syndrome. Relax. They didn't re-invent anything. It's just Firefox with a few patches for integrating with their desktop environment. Plus, they gave up on their startup system. They'll be switching to systemd in future releases.

commandar• 12 years ago

It's just Firefox with a few patches for integrating with their desktop environment.

Debian upstream does the same thing. Mozilla doesn't allow use of the Firefox trademark for non-Mozilla builds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Weasel

floor_2• 12 years ago

Oh god. Not systemd. That bloated pile of garbage.

kuchaguangjie• 12 years ago

Since 10.10, when unity as desktop, ubuntu desktop is dead ... f..k Mark ...

octopus• 12 years ago

Nobody stops you to install an alternate GUI on top of Ubuntu or install other Linux distro. HN is not the place for ad hominem attacks (even if you don't like the way Mark changes Ubuntu).

mrinterweb2• 12 years ago

For some strange reason, the 14.04 release is not showing up for me with "sudo do-release-upgrade". I have tried to update my primary software source to their main server and main for the US, and both did not show the availability of the new release.

As a friendly reminder, if you want to download the release as quickly as possible, use the torrent from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads and be sure to seed for others.

tyleregeto• 12 years ago

I'm not seeing it either, its not just you. Probably still propagating or something. Hopefully soon!

blippe• 12 years ago

It is by design!

Upgrades between LTS releases are not enabled by default until the first point release, 14.04.1, scheduled for July. It is recommended that most LTS users wait until then before upgrading to 14.04. You could add a '-d' flag if you're in a hurry!

mrinterweb2• 12 years ago

I used the '-d' flag and the release that it showed was the development release. I tried to proceed with the 14.04 development upgrade, but the upgrade failed.

pjvds4• 12 years ago

Desktop and server pages are now pointing to 14.04 as well:

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

ausjke• 12 years ago

From the release notes:

"Hardware support - ARM multiplatform support has been added, enabling you to build a single ARM kernel image that can boot across multiple hardware platforms. Additionally, the ARM64 and Power architectures are now fully supported. "

Really? Can you do openstack with ARM/Power? what do you mean by "fully supported", does it mean ARM/Power/x86 all have the same set of packages? it has not been the case in the past.

homulilly• 12 years ago

So can you move the application dock to the bottom of the screen without recompiling yet?

sobering• 12 years ago

Anyone have any guesses as to when this will be available on DigitalOcean?

Edit: As of five minutes ago, it's showing up!

arunk-s• 12 years ago

Can anyone point the link to ubuntu gnome 14.04 ( final release ) ? All I can get is the trusty beta 2 on their official ubuntugnome.org.

bebop2• 12 years ago

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/relea...

marshray• 12 years ago

Figures! I installed my first Ubuntu in years, 12.04.4 LTS, literally yesterday.

Ubuntu 14.04 released

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