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Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released

Posted by yaelk on from the updates dept.

prisoninmate writes: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) builds are available for download in the form of Live and Installable ISO images for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, on both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms, and that existing Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS users can now update their systems. But not only Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) users can update, as all the official flavors have been updated as well, so users of Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, Edubuntu 14.04 LTS, Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, Lubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu Studio 14.04 LTS, Mythbuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS can also update their systems today or grab the new ISOs.

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  1. Re:existing 14.04ers by Parker+Lewis · · Score: 2, Informative

    The proper command to update is in the LTS Enablement Stack wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel...:

    sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-wily xserver-xorg-core-lts-wily xserver-xorg-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-wily xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-wily libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-wily libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-wily libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-wily:i386 libglapi-mesa-lts-wily:i386

  2. Re:existing 14.04ers by somenickname · · Score: 4, Informative

    That doesn't update you to 14.04.4, that installs the backported kernel and Xorg drivers. That's not necessary if all your hardware is already supported in vanilla 14.04. If you are already running 14.04.3, the upgrade process is transparent and will happen when you next run dist-upgrade or click the "install updates" button when it next nags you. The ".4" part of the version number has no real meaning beyond, "It has been about 6 months since we last incremented the version number so, let's do so and refresh the images so people are downloading the latest bits". Since the LTS versions have 5 years of support, not refreshing the download images means that, as time goes on, the originally packages are so out of date that you have to upgrade almost all of them immediately after installing. It's really just an arbitrary timestamp rather than what most people would consider an upgrade.

  3. Re:Kubuntu is better than Ubuntu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Konqueror was a great OS... it's just a shame it was missing a decent file manager.