Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS Is in the Works, Will Be Better than 14.10

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Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS Is in the Works, Will Be Better than 14.10

The new system will be supported until 2019

Now that Ubuntu MATE 14.10 has been released, its developers are looking to the future and planning to build an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version.
The previous statement might seem a little bit odd. Developers usually go forward, never backwards, but this is a special occasion. The first Ubuntu MATE Remix made available was an Alpha version based on Ubuntu 14.10, which means that the devs were a little late to the LTS party.

Ubuntu MATE registered great success in the Linux community, but it's easy to understand why users were sorry to have missed the LTS window, which only opens every couple of years. In order to get an LTS version for this distro, people would have had to wait until 2016, which is a long time. This is why the devs thought about also building an LTS right after the 14.10 launch.
Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS is in the works
One of the Ubuntu MATE developers, Alan Pope, has revealed on his Google+ account the fact that they are working on an LTS version. There is little to no information about the new version, with a few exceptions. We can tell you that a number of features from the Ubuntu 14.10 branch are backported to the 14.04 build, and that they have advanced quite a bit.

"Actually 14.04 is quite an evolution on 14.10 an I think this 14.04 release is going to be what 14.10 should have been. Lots of new features and lots of fixes. In 14.04 version there is indicator support, so you can have indicators in there now, and we pulled all the latest MATE packages from Debian Jessie," says Martin Wimpress, one of the devs from the Ubuntu MATE project, on the latest LINUX Unplugged 65 show.

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[L0oniX]

1. Cinnamon is also supported thru 2019. I'm luv' testing/running distros from a 256gb flash drive.

D/l'n Cinnamon right now. Installed Debian 770 Gnome amd 64 on a second drive last night. So far all working with a AMD A10-7850k.