<div dir="ltr"><span class="">The second Alpha of Trusty Tahr (to become 14.04 LTS) has now been</span><div class="" id="magicdomid14"><span class="">released for testers and early adopters.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid15"> <br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid528"><span class="">This alpha features images for </span><span class="">Edubuntu, </span><span class="">Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME,</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid202"><span class="">Ubuntu Kylin, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Cloud images.</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid18"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid286"><span class="">These are not to be used as stable systems but please do test for bugs to report. Always ensure your system is up to date before reporting bugs.</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid669"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid674"><span class="">Edubuntu:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid864"><span class=""> Edubuntu is the educational flavour of Ubuntu. It's very similar to stock Ubuntu but integrates a lot of educational software, su</span><span class="">p</span><span class="">ports thin clients (LTSP) and offers an optional GNOME Flashback desktop as an alternative to Unity.</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid873"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid872"><span class="">The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid868"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/trusty/alpha-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/trusty/alpha-2/</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid869"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid870"><span class="">More information on Edubuntu alpha 2 is published here:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid871"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/Alpha2/Edubuntu">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/Alpha2/Edubuntu</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid39"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid40"><span class="">Kubuntu:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid41"><span class=""> Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid324"><span class=""> and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project. In this LTS cycle</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid406"><span class=""> the Kubuntu team are working on stabalising and bug fixing.</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid44"><span class="">The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid304"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/trusty/alpha-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/trusty/alpha-2/</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid46"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid297"><span class="">More information on Kubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid306"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/TrustyTahr/Alpha2/Kubuntu">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/TrustyTahr/Alpha2/Kubuntu</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid63"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid64"><span class="">Ubuntu GNOME:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid408"><span class=""> Ubuntu GNOME is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop environment.</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid67"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid68"><span class="">The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid421"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/alpha-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/alpha-2/</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid71"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid410"><span class="">More information on Ubuntu GNOME Alpha 2 can be found here:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid413"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/Alpha2/UbuntuGNOME">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/Alpha2/UbuntuGNOME</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid75"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid76"><span class="">Xubuntu:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid426"><span class=""> Xubuntu is the Ubuntu flavour with Xfce, a stable, light and</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid78"><span class=""> configurable desktop environment.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid79"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid80"><span class="">The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at:</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid441"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu;/releases/trusty/alpha-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu;/releases/trusty/alpha-2/</a></span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid442"> <br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid475"><span class="">More information on Xubuntu Alpha 2 will be published here:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid446"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-14-04-alpha-2/">http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-14-04-alpha-2/</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid90"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid91"><span class="">UbuntuKylin:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid92"><span class=""> UbuntuKylin is a flavour of Ubuntu that is more suitable for</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid93"><span class=""> Chinese users.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid94"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid95"><span class="">The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid488"> <span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/trusty/alpha">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/trusty/alpha</a></span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid98"><br> </div><div class="" id="magicdomid811"><span class="">More information on UbuntuKylin Alpha 2 will be publis</span><span class="">h</span><span class="">ed here:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid966"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/show.php?lang=en&id=147">http://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/show.php?lang</a></span><span class=""><a href="http://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/show.php?lang=en&id=147">=en&id</a></span><span class=""><a href="http://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/show.php?lang=en&id=147">=147</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid529"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid542"><span class="">Ubuntu Cloud:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid964"><span class=""> Ubuntu Cloud images can be run on Amazon EC2</span><span class="">, Openstack, SmartOS and many other clouds. Included with Alpha-2 are PPC64EL images. </span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid874"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/trusty/alpha-2/">http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/trusty/alpha-2/</a></span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid967"> <br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid968"><span class="">Regular daily images for Ubuntu (Unity) can be found at:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid970"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid973"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid106"><span class="">If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid523"><span class="">Trusty, we suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list.</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid108"><span class="">This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid109"><span class="">of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases and other</span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid110"><span class="">interesting events.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid111"><span class=""> </span><span class=""><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce</a></span></div> <div class="" id="magicdomid112"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid113"><span class="">Jonathan Riddell, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid123"><br></div></div>