Ubuntu 14.04 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by CyberShadow » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:13 PM UTC

munchor wrote: post #17

ziggamon wrote: post #4

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!

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...

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?

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by higherpurpose » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:13 PM UTC

ihsw wrote: post #14

zanny wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.co…

I believe Microsoft did the same thing with Windows 8.1 (local file searches pass on to advertisers).

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by nawitus » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

CyberShadow wrote: post #31

munchor wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

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?

It's probably demonstrating live window resizing for that particular application.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by untothebreach » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

Toenex wrote: post #21

bencoder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

UK here too. 'sudo do-release-upgrade' gives 'No new release found`.

It's weird, if I go to the web page linked here, I see the release, but running the 'sudo do-release-upgrade' command reports the same thing as yours.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by jff » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

celebril wrote: post #28

floor_ wrote: post #8

Does Ubuntu still shill out personal data to Amazon?

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.

Just lie back and think of England

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by bsg75 » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:28 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #15

bsg75 wrote: post #9

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

ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso 17-Apr-2014 01:35 964M Seems ok now?

It is showing for me now.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by wcchandler » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:29 PM UTC

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

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by beaumartinez » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

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...

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

wcchandler wrote: post #37

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

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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released

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Post by g8oz » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

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