You now have the option of minimizing apps from the launcher (and launcher icons can be made much smaller, too). So, what is new in Ubuntu 14.04? There is finally the option for locally integrated menus (LIM) in an app’s title bar, instead of forcing the app’s menu to appear at the top of the screen (enable it in the new Unity Control Center). (Read: Ubuntu: Wake up and smell the Unity against you.) (Canonical has revised its estimate for the first Ubuntu smartphones to the third quarter of 2014, so there’s still a little time to polish things up.) For the big changes, you’ll be waiting for Ubuntu 14.10 (or likely even later for Mir). Despite Canonical’s Shuttleworth saying that Ubuntu 14.04 would include the Touch/Mobile, it appears they won’t make it into the final build. Mir, the new graphics stack being developed by Canonical that is due to eventually replace the X Window System, is still a long way off.

Trusty Tahr is the first long-term support (LTS) build of Ubuntu in two years, and is thus contains a lot of exciting features that thousands (millions?) of Ubuntu 12.04 users can’t wait to get their hands on.īecause Trusty is an LTS, most of the changes are fairly conservative in nature. Late last night, the final beta of 14.04 Trusty Tahr (an African wild goat) was released, with the final build due on April 17. The next version of the world’s preeminent Linux distro, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, is almost upon us.

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