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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released

[Posted April 17, 2014 by jake]

From:  Adam Conrad <adconrad-AT-ubuntu.com>
To:  ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released
Date:  Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:09:54 -0600
Message-ID:  <20140417170954.GZ28005@0c3.net>

The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce our fifth long-term support
release, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core, as well
as Ubuntu 14.04 for Phone and Tablet products.

Codenamed "Trusty Tahr", 14.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.  The team has been hard at
work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the first long-term support release with support
for the new "arm64" architecture for 64-bit ARM systems, as well as the
"ppc64el" architecture for little-endian 64-bit POWER systems.  This
release also includes several subtle but welcome improvements to Unity,
AppArmor, and a host of other great software.

Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS includes the Icehouse release of OpenStack,
alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time
when deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds,
public clouds, x86 or ARM servers, or on developer laptops.  Several key
server technologies, from MAAS to Ceph, have been updated to new upstream
versions with a variety of new features.

The newest Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu
Kylin, and Ubuntu Studio are also being released today.  More details
can be found for these at their individual release notes:

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes#Official_...

Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop,
Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Kylin, Edubuntu, and
Kubuntu.  All the remaining flavours will be supported for 3 years.

To get Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
-----------------------

In order to download Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, visit:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to
14.04 LTS via Update Manager shortly. Users of 12.04 LTS will be
offered the automatic upgrade when 14.04.1 LTS is released, which is
scheduled for July 24th. For further information about upgrading, see:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free 
of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes 
on the release itself. They are available at:

   http://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
   http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug
but aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:

   #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
   http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
   http://www.ubuntuforums.org
   http://askubuntu.com


Help Shape Ubuntu
-----------------

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list
of ways you can participate at:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved


About Ubuntu
------------

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops,
netbooks and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular
releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications
is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a
few clicks away.

Professional services including support are available from Canonical
and hundreds of other companies around the world.  For more information
about support, visit:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/support


More Information
----------------

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   http://www.ubuntu.com

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Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 17, 2014 19:17 UTC (Thu) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] (7 responses)

It is strange to think that this (LTS) release has better support for ARM and PPC than for Intel's Pentium.

(The mini.iso kernel will not boot on my Pentium M laptop because of the PAE requirement.)

Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 17, 2014 19:41 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (4 responses)

They didn't want to be supporting Pentium M until 2019?

Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 17, 2014 20:07 UTC (Thu) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link]

Can't blame them, but...

The only reason I'm installing Linux on that laptop is because Windows XP is not allowed on our network any more. I imagine I'm not the only one in that situation. B-) Seems like a missed opportunity....

Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 17, 2014 21:13 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (2 responses)

Supporting old Pentium M means either two sets of install media, install media with two complete sets of kernel packages or not supporting PAE (and, hence, not supporting NX).

It turns out that these chips appear to actually implement PAE, but don't advertise it. There's been some discussion of adding a kernel parameter to use it anyway and mark the kernel as tainted in case it's actually broken.

Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 18, 2014 14:55 UTC (Fri) by javispedro (guest, #83660) [Link]

It was the norm to have multiple kernels in the early liveCD days, and there are still several distros doing this in 2014, so that is not such a complicated problem. They boot to a default one but allow you to select an alternative, more conservative image (with a much smaller .config that barely uses two megs when compressed -1).

Obviously the problem is that they just didn't care, because they (correctly) believe that Unity is not going to fly either way on such "old" CPUs. That's debatable but it's the choice that was made.

Alternatively to forcepae try building a kernel without PAE and NX for a slight performance gain.

Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 19, 2014 4:18 UTC (Sat) by weue (guest, #96562) [Link]

I fail to see why providing two full kernels is a problem.

The image is 970 MB, and so won't fit on a CD anyway, and DVDs can hold 4GB, while 16GB usb flash drives can be bought for 10$.

Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 17, 2014 20:43 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

Tried forcepae?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE

I did not do myself, I just read somewhere that those CPUs in fact support PAE, just don't bother to announce it via cpuid or whatever is used to determine CPU features these days.

Also (Fedora hat on), you're very welcome to run Fedora on your lappy! :)

Lack of Intel x86 CPU support

Posted Apr 18, 2014 11:40 UTC (Fri) by xnox (guest, #63320) [Link]

12.04.0 LTS images support non-PAE, with 14.04 LTS use "forcepae" boot argument (after the --) if your CPU has PAE support but does not advertise it.

server + desktop upgrades don't work yet

Posted Apr 17, 2014 20:08 UTC (Thu) by dougg (guest, #1894) [Link] (2 responses)

A 64 bit server and a 32 bit desktop both running u13.10 are not upgrading yet [do-release-upgrade]. Tried official Ubuntu mirrors in CA, US and UK.

Are they staggering this to lower the hit on their servers?

server + desktop upgrades don't work yet

Posted Apr 18, 2014 2:55 UTC (Fri) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link] (1 responses)

do-release-upgrade usually advertises after the first point release has been released AFAIK.

You can still upgrade by using "upgrade-manager -d"

server + desktop upgrades don't work yet

Posted Apr 18, 2014 10:19 UTC (Fri) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

It depends on your settings. LTS -> LTS upgrades wait until .1. Regular upgrades don't. Software Sources, IIRC, is where you can say which kind you want.

I was offered a 14.04 upgrade this morning without using -d.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released

Posted Apr 20, 2014 13:15 UTC (Sun) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link] (1 responses)

Used to hate ubuntu for some time and after many years of distro-hopping from fedora>arch>Debian>FreeBSD>Gentoo finally gave xubuntu 14.04 a try. I have to say this is the most amazingly polished xfce release I have ever seen. There is no bloat that accompanies unity either.

Great work xubuntu guys!

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released

Posted Apr 23, 2014 8:21 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

This.

The inclusion of WhiskerMenu and the good taste in choosing the default look makes it a great work environment, lean and fast, but also pretty and useful.

If only the Super-L (AKA Windows key) was bound by default to open the menu, this could have been the first desktop I would have used absolutely unchanged (I haven't even changed the backgroud!).


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