Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr Released

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story imageUbuntu released version 14.04 LTS (codename "Trusty Tahr") today. This is a long-term support distribution, meaning Ubuntu will support it with security and bug fixes for 5 years as it slowly replaces Ubuntu 12.04 LTS that preceded it.Recent notable changes, such as the move to systemd or the Mir display server, are absent in this release. However, this release adds arm64 and ppc64el architectures. OpenStack and other "cloud" tools also received many updates.

Although critics often disparage the animal codename, the uniqueness of the word does aide Internet searches. For example, if you search for "Ubuntu Bluetooth" you may get outdated information from previous versions that is no longer relevant. However, adding "Precise Pangolin" or "Trusty Tahr" really helps narrow down the results.

Re: School Computer Lab (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-19 08:02 (#14G)

Wow, that'd be cool if done right. Have Ubuntu with Unity, KDE, Gnome 3 and Xfce each on 10 machines. It would be very interesting what students would prefer to pick over time. Neglect the first weeks as everyone needs to try everything though.

Apart from that, here are some thoughts: Mint has some weird update strategy that some called less secure than Ubuntu. I would certainly pick Ubuntu 14.04 LTS right now because you don't have to care about anything for 5 years update wise. You can install KDE, Gnome, Mate, Xfce or whatever else you like on top of that base system. Whatever distro you chose in the end, I'd also stay with a Debian base, it's well supported and documented and now even Valve deploys Steam on it which might get students more interested.
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