Since 10.10, when unity as desktop, ubuntu desktop is dead ... f..k Mark ...
Ubuntu 14.04 released
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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#72Since 10.10, when unity as desktop, ubuntu desktop is dead ... f..k Mark ...
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).
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#73For 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.
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#74For 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
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…
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 :)
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#75For 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…
I'm not seeing it either, its not just you. Probably still propagating or something. Hopefully soon!
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#76Ubuntu 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] htt…
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.
Ubuntu 14.04.1 is scheduled for July 24th.
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#77Desktop 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
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ubuntu 14.04.1 is scheduled for July 24th.
In the bug thread linked in above, it's mentioned that it will be fixed in Debian and then included in an SRU (Stable Release Update) for Ubuntu 14.04.
Does that mean July 24th or might it be earlier, do you know?
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#79Magnet 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
Anybody know when Xubuntu and Lubuntu will be updated to 14.04? Is it usually the same day or a few days later?
xubuntu is now out also: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 released
#80From 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.