The company Yoyo Fernández does not need an introduction, and through the Google network he was throwing an interesting question: Is it worth downloading and installing the recent Ubuntu 14.10 having already installed and up to date Ubuntu LTS 14.04?
To answer the question (from my point of view) we first have to know what are the news that this release brings us in Ubuntu 14.10 and family.
What's new in Ubuntu 14.10
In the specific case of Ubuntu 14.10 we can find some small (rather tiny) changes in the artwork, in this case related to the Home and Videos icon in Nautilus, also if you look at the capture, the Maximize button now has the smaller square.
This has been a somewhat boring launch when you consider that the main changes are not to launch rockets. Only the new versions of the most popular applications are added, such as:
- LibreOffice 4.3.2.2
- Firefox 33
- Thunderbird 33
- Nautilus 3.10
- Evidence 3.14
- Rhythmbox 3.0.3
- Unity 7.3.1
All this accompanied by the Linux Kernel 3.16 (when version 3.17 is already available), which has presented problems to some users (in which I include myself with ArchLinux) with certain peripherals.
Kernel 3.16 brings a significant number of fixes and new hardware support including support for Power 8 and arm64 platforms. It also includes support for Intel Cherryview, Haswell, Broadwell and Merrifield systems, and initial support for Nvidia GK20A and GK110B GPUs. There is improved graphics performance on many devices from Intel, Nvidia, and ATI Radeon and also audio enhancements that support the Radeon.264 video encoder. In short, better support for hybrid graphics.
GTK has been updated to version 3.12, and QT to version 5.3. Added support for IPP printers, Xorg 1.16 has better support for non-pci devices. Xephyr now compatible with DRI3. Table 10.3 update has support for AMD Hawaii GPU, improves support for dri3 download, and preliminary support for using nouveau on maxwell devices.
What's new in Kubuntu 14.10
For its part, Kubuntu 14.10 comes with Plasma 4.14 although this time, they offer us the possibility of downloading an image with Plasma 5, which of course should not be used in production environments, but to test it and play with it is fine.
What's new in Xubuntu 14.10
As of Xubuntu 14.10, it is used PKEXEC instead of gksudo to run graphical applications with root access from the terminal, to improve security.
To celebrate the 'Utopian Unicorn' codename and to demonstrate how easy to customize Xubuntu is, the highlight colors are pink in this release, but don't worry, it can be disabled via gtk-theme-config, in the configuration manager. We simply have to deactivate the Custom Highlight Colors option, and that's it.
Otherwise, a new Xfce Power Manager plugin is added to the panel, and the Items of the new theme for Ctrl + Tab can be selected at the tip of mouse.
Do we update or not?
Seeing the few novelties then it is time to answer the question: Is it worth updating ?. The answer may vary according to the tastes and needs of each person. People with versionitis problems will not hesitate to do the Upgrade sooner, however, my personal opinion is that it is not worth doing.
This version of Ubuntu 14.10 and family will not have extended support and it is very likely that when version 15.04 comes out (if it does come out) we will have to reinstall again if we want to receive better support.
I would advise that if you feel like trying, download the ISOS and test it in LiveCD mode first, making sure that all the components of your computer work correctly, but the added changes are not as relevant as to install again or do an Upgrade. But I repeat, that is everyone's decision.
If you want to update from 14.04, you just have to follow the instructions below:
- We press Alt + F2 and write "update-manager" (without the quotes).
- Update Manager should open up and tell us: There is a new release available.
- We click on Update and follow the instructions.
Good luck with that!! 😉
Image taken from OMGUbuntu
You have to be a VERY observant to realize that only 2 icons changed in the nautilus panel ... what a barbarian!
See .. XD
I was waiting for the 14.10 to start installing it * or *
P.S. Also the dots of the download icon are smaller: v
Do you consider it necessary to update Ubuntu Studio?
If for your daily work you need "the news" that Ubuntu Studio includes, or more advanced software, then maybe yes.
For some remote place on the internet I read that maybe there is no Ubuntu 15.04 or that after this it will become rolling release !, to be or not to be
That is why I said "if there are 15.04" ..
The truth is that Ubuntu updates are a real pain, I have almost always had to reinstall the computer from scratch after trying to do a complete update.
And the amount of "extra" repositories that must be installed to be able to have this or that program ...
It's been more than two years since I moved to Arch and I'm so happy. Sorry if I offend someone but I would not go back to Ubuntu or crazy.
V is for Vivid
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1425
There are not many fans in ubunto, when will they bring out a cell phone with the ubuntu system?
AND LUBUNTU ???? Well, thanks, greetings sent? Man, if you're going to mention the official branches, mention them all. I don't know, I say.
Personally, Lubuntu is very unoriginal, an exaggerated cloning of LXDE, it brings ubuntu-touch-sounds, the positive is the latest version of xorg, support for QT5 libraries.
But if you like Lubuntu, you can choose to reduce Trisquel 0 applications to 7.0, leaving only xorg, lxterminal, pcmanfm, lxsession and lxde-core.
Then you configure the sources.list:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list [I have you introduce:]
deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/ubuntu/ utopian main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/ubuntu/ utopian-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/ubuntu/ utopic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/ubuntu/ utopian-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/ubuntu/ utopic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Then you can install low-level packages, like grub-coreboot.
So you will have the best of free software and the best of open source
Lubuntu 14.10 is available, and it says so the same wiki from Ubuntu, but still still in beta branch.
Then I withdraw what was said and surely elav will make a special article just for Lubuntu when it is available.
Hey Wait! It already is! In fact, it is since EVERYONE came out. I downloaded it that same day and it's not beta at all. A separate part was enough where they named it and said (if you want) "it doesn't bring much." But at least they included it.
What a pity. Before the author liked Openbox (I think)
Well, for those who have Lubuntu installed, a dist-upgrade was enough. In my case, I continue with Openbox on both of my PCs so that XFCE can stand on both versions of Debian (Wheezy and Jessie). Although Debian Jessie is already about to enter the freeze phase, the improvements come every time I make an update (I imagine that Ubuntu 14.04 should already be with the relevant components more up to date than Debian).
One question, does this version work with SystemD?
regards
Obviously yes, if you don't want to use it, you have the option of using slackware or gentoo.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I have on a PC with this Ubuntu 14.10 and I don't see systemD anywhere, it follows Upstart by default (better really, I don't like systemD). What I have been able to observe is that now you can install systemD from the official repositories and you can now use it to start with the yes and removing all traces of Upstart if you like, which until 14.04 was impossible.
I personally have rotten updates, I do not bank them, they are a nuisance, going around making backup copies to reformat, any ordinary user (there are millions) all they want is for their PC to work and look good aesthetically. Mozilla updates for example, even if I check the "do not update" box, it updates me anyway, it comes in the Ubuntu combo ... for this little detail, it is that many add-ons are disabled and some have not been updated for more than a year like ForeCastFox. My distro is Voyager, based on Xubuntu, but I am thinking of going to some rolling, I am not a technician, I have no experience and I end up asking for help to update, however in my dual boot the Windows of the year 2005 continues to work ... 3 years ago I went to Linux, I like it, but updates screw me ...
for what?
add the new repos (or just point to the new version) and do apt-get dist-upgrade
in fedora use FedUp and voila.
> I'm rotten from updates
> I plan to install a rolling
Contradiction?
And the good 😀
For you to format, you just have to upgrade and that's it, everything is the same as if you formatted and installed from scratch, personal experience
If you go rolling, you're going to suffer, because if what you hate the most is updates, better use Slackware (they are updates that are really rare, but really accurate). In any other case, I would recommend Debian Wheezy, since it is in version 7.7 and is increasingly stable that it even solved the GlibC problem in Chromium / Chrome.
He's three months old and would you recommend Slackware? Better to stay with Ubuntu for that, what he doesn't like is to upgrade every 6 months, with Slackware he will also have to do it, in addition to having to resolve dependencies and compile applications, I will give it to you to do that, also to have less software because compiling it yourself is a mess without Slackbuilds.
Ah three years I read wrong.
It is not worth updating, more with its super weight of 1GB, it falls too heavy for few changes.
Pity they turned 10 years old and the celebration passed without pain or glory. Nor was there such. 😐: - / 🙁 😡: ->
Don't upgrade, it's just not worth it. Home users, always stay in LTS I still have 12.04.4 simply in terms of stability the Ubuntu LTS releases are the best. And waiting for Trisquel 7 in a few days! in the spirit of knowing if it will recognize my wifi.
We have to take into account that this version only has 9 months of support.
I stay in openSUSE Factory ... Gnome-Shell 3.14 is coming out: D.
Well, I have found some ugly medium bugs with openSUSE RC1 and Shell 3.14, I really do not recommend it for production environments, it is still very green and separate themes and extensions, that the most popular ones still do not go and some even have problems and without these, Gnome Shell is unusable in my opinion.
After consulting it with the pillow, I think, at least in my case, that it is not worth updating.
This 14.10 only brings support for 9 months, such as a woman's pregnancy, and they tend to be more unstable than LTS.
And in my case, there is hardware combined with certain programs that do not work for me in kernel 3.16 but in 3.13 it works great.
These intermediate versions do not make much sense, I think they should better focus on the LTS and update them than take births of 9 months.
regards
In Debian Jessie already migrated to 3.16, and everything fine. The bad thing is that in the latest updates, like they put a kind of VMWare OpenGL renderer (which magically appeared to me) that has made even Steam games look heavier than when I play on Windows. But I'll see that in the forum and when I'm at home.
For now, I'll wait until Ubuntu MATE Remix 14.04 stabilizes well to be able to give it a virtual taste.
Does Ubuntu Mate 14.04 Exist? It will not be 14.10, because I do not see references to a Mate LTS, but suddenly I am wrong.
@anonymous:
Lapsus Calami on my part, since Ubuntu MATE was officially born from version 14.10, although with a minimal installation of Ubuntu you can configure the MATE desktop in case you hate dying the Unity interface.
The ones that come out in the middle are very stable, I'll tell you. I updated it and everything is fine. The grace of the LTS is the long support and that it is hyperproved, for servers or people who do not want to think much about the system and only use it works.
Now, people who like to have the latest software and features, like me, should always update whenever a new stable version comes out. The bad thing about Ubuntu is that it is not bleeding edge, at least I would like to always have the latest applications as in Fedora, which is always updated, but without losing stability, at most some bug in the interface.
It is that the intermediate versions earned a bad name for some individuals, generally those that served as a transition to later mature versions of the different environments, such as Kubuntu 9.xx and 10.xx (even Kubuntu 10.04 LTS was not saved) or in the In the case of Ubuntu, the 8.xx branch was not very good and all 11.xx and from 12.10 to 13.04, which is where stability was already reached, due to the introduction and continuous changes in Unity, the case of Ubuntu 12.04 was particular, since it started with a series of errors, but these were fixed after a few months (for Ubuntu 12.04.2 it could already be considered stable).
But today 14.10 should be fairly stable, since the changes in Unity are minor and from what I have seen, systemD has not been introduced yet, or anything from Xmir or Mir as default, which are the ones that could have given the note.
I forgot, in the case of Kubuntu anyway, Plasma 5 is not as chaotic as the transition from KDE3.5x to KDE4 was at the time, where KDE4 was an unusable monstrosity when it came out, nothing compared to the marvel it is today.
I ALREADY want those new icons!
If you use the Numix pack, or even the Faenza, you honestly don't miss out on anything.
Hi, I know this may not be the best place on the web. desdelinux to make the following proposition, but taking advantage of the theme and the author's ease in the subject, I am going to take a risk:
Would it be too much to ask for a tutorial on the safest way to do a dist upgrade in Ubuntu? I propose it as a manual of good practices prior to updating. I don't know, things like if it is better to disconnect the graphics area if you have an amd or nvidia gpu, etc etc ... come on, all those details that one does not think about and that then get damaged when updating.
If you have lts better to continue with it of course, as they comment on there, let's not forget about lubuntu
Hello Friday I downloaded Ubuntu 14.10 on my acer one netbook that has windows xp, as the support has been withdrawn I want to try Linux, I downloaded it from the web in zip and then installed it without problem, it recognized the entire PC and the best thing when starting I have the option to go to xp or ubuntu 14.10. I only have one problem that I do not know if it will be like this or if a patch is needed, the icons and others are in English, is there any way that the Spanish language can be put .
Thanks greetings .
Hello Jose!
I think it would be better if you ask this question in our question and answer service called Ask DesdeLinux so that the whole community can help you with your problem.
A hug, Pablo.
well, I just did the upgrade, it is practically the same as 14.04, the difference for me is that now it is working better for me, apparently, when installing 14.04 some error in the installation caused that there were errors especially in the connection to internet ahira it seems that this error has been corrected, which for me is a gain, greetings
Friends, what do you say about this? Will it be necessary to update completely? What happens is that I always update the version I have, 14,04. And I have updated unity, etc. And I was able to activate to update to 14.10, but it is too heavy. Do you need to update everything?
Thank you!