Canonical has officially announced the next version of its operating system, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). The new distribution is available for download today.
The Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) distribution is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu releases, mainly because it is an LTS version and because it incorporates many new features.
It's hard to list all the innovations you'll find in the new version of Ubuntu, and most of them are really small improvements.
For example, Canonical decided it was time to do something about the menu. On very large screens with high resolutions, users have to move the mouse quite a distance between the open application window and the menu at the top of the screen.
With the addition of the new Locally Integrated Menu feature, users now have the ability to move menus from the bar at the top to the window frame, making it much easier to activate an application's options. With some clever heuristics, the new menus won't get in the way of moving the actual window.
Other major new features include a new lock screen, live window resizing, smaller Unity icons, new Linux kernel, , and more.
“Ubuntu 14.04 includes the 3.13.0-24.46 Linux kernel for Ubuntu based on the upstream stable Linux kernel,” the official announcement states. The developers probably didn’t have enough time to adapt Linux kernel 3.14 in place, but 3.13 should be more than enough.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Ubuntu Kylin. All other versions will be supported for 3 years.
You can download the new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) from here
