Select an image
Kubuntu is distributed on two types of images described below.
Desktop image
The desktop image allows you to try Kubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of image is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this image.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead.
- 32-bit PC (i386) desktop image
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
Desktop image
The desktop image allows you to try Kubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this image.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead.
- 32-bit PC (i386) desktop image
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
A full list of available files, including BitTorrent files, can be found below.
If you need help burning these images to disk, see the Image Burning Guide.
Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory - MD5SUMS 2016-02-18 22:24 671 MD5SUMS-metalink 2016-02-18 22:24 721 MD5SUMS-metalink.gpg 2016-02-18 22:24 933 MD5SUMS.gpg 2016-02-18 22:24 933 SHA1SUMS 2016-02-18 22:24 751 SHA1SUMS.gpg 2016-02-18 22:24 933 SHA256SUMS 2016-02-18 22:24 1.0K SHA256SUMS.gpg 2016-02-18 22:24 933 kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.metalink 2016-02-18 22:24 1.0K kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-i386.metalink 2016-02-18 22:24 1.0K kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-i386.iso.zsync 2016-02-18 22:24 2.0M Desktop image for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (zsync metafile) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 2016-02-18 22:24 41K Desktop image for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (BitTorrent download) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-i386.manifest 2016-02-18 01:31 50K Desktop image for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (contents of live filesystem) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-i386.list 2016-02-18 01:56 4.3K Desktop image for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (file listing) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-i386.iso 2016-02-18 01:56 1.0G Desktop image for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (standard download) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync 2016-02-18 22:24 2.1M Desktop image for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (zsync metafile) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent 2016-02-18 22:24 41K Desktop image for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (BitTorrent download) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.manifest 2016-02-18 01:29 51K Desktop image for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (contents of live filesystem) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.list 2016-02-18 01:41 5.0K Desktop image for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (file listing) kubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso 2016-02-18 01:41 1.0G Desktop image for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)