Re: : Fwd: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released

I looking forward to testing out the Ubuntu Touch[1] (the phone and
tablet version) on my Nexus 7. They seem to only have support for the
Google Nexus line right now.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:46 PM, staticsafe <[email protected]> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:09:54 -0600
> From: Adam Conrad <adconrad-GeWIH/[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
>
> The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce our fifth long-term support
> release, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core, as well
> as Ubuntu 14.04 for Phone and Tablet products.
>
> Codenamed "Trusty Tahr", 14.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
> of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
> high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.  The team has been hard at
> work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
>
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the first long-term support release with support
> for the new "arm64" architecture for 64-bit ARM systems, as well as the
> "ppc64el" architecture for little-endian 64-bit POWER systems.  This
> release also includes several subtle but welcome improvements to Unity,
> AppArmor, and a host of other great software.
>
> Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS includes the Icehouse release of OpenStack,
> alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time
> when deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds,
> public clouds, x86 or ARM servers, or on developer laptops.  Several key
> server technologies, from MAAS to Ceph, have been updated to new upstream
> versions with a variety of new features.
>
> The newest Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu
> Kylin, and Ubuntu Studio are also being released today.  More details
> can be found for these at their individual release notes:
>
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours
>
> Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop,
> Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Kylin, Edubuntu, and
> Kubuntu.  All the remaining flavours will be supported for 3 years.
>
> To get Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> -----------------------
>
> In order to download Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, visit:
>
>    http://www.ubuntu.com/download
>
> Users of Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to
> 14.04 LTS via Update Manager shortly. Users of 12.04 LTS will be
> offered the automatic upgrade when 14.04.1 LTS is released, which is
> scheduled for July 24th. For further information about upgrading, see:
>
>    http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade
>
> As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free
> of charge.
>
> We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
> caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes
> on the release itself. They are available at:
>
>    http://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes
>
> Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:
>
>    http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
>    http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features
>
> If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug
> but aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:
>
>    #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
>    http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>    http://www.ubuntuforums.org
>    http://askubuntu.com
>
>
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> More Information
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>
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> On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
> Adam Conrad
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