Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty images for VirtualBox & VMware(32bit/64bit)
Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr was a big release from Ubuntu team, it is faster and mature enough than any other Ubuntu version as I think. Here we made available 14.04.x 32bit and 64bit images for VirtualBox (VDI) and VMware (VMDK).
What’s in 14.04.x:
- Linux kernel 3.13.x
- Libreoffice office suite version 4.x
- Many default applications regained well-integrated menu bars under Unity
- Upstart has been upgraded to version 1.12.x
- Dash performance got better
- SSD TRIM Support By Default
- Unity new lock screen (With fast lock) and new screensaver
- Unity control center
- Locally integrated menus
- HiDPI (High pixel density display – Retina) for High resolution screens and desktop scaling
- Windows borders dropped
- Click to minimize on application launcher (disabled by default)
- Real-time window resize
- Global menu can be disabled for individual applications
- Unity launcher can be resized to 8px.
- Anti-aliased windows corners
- Live windows re-sizing
- Nautilus: ‘Typeahead’ (recursive dropped) and ‘Backspace’ to go up are back
- Nvidia Optimus support got better (But not perfect yet)
- Dash scopes can now be enabled and disabled from Application lens, inside dash itself
Release Announcement: This point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
You can download VDI image for VirtualBox & VMDK image for VMware from here.