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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the grappling-gnus dept.

donadony writes with news about what will become the next LTS release of Ubuntu. From the article: "It's time to take another look at what is happening with the development of Ubuntu 12.04. As it stands, the first Beta of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin has been released. I just updated my own system. What changed since Alpha? Not much, really. In fact, there's really nothing groundbreaking or any new features added. Unity has been updated to version 5.4.0 which also sees the introduction of the new HUD feature. HUD still apparently has many outstanding bugs, but developers maintain that all bugs will be ironed out before Ubuntu 12.04 goes gold. Also added were recommendations to Ubuntu software center, and a new tool called 'privacy' and other small new features."

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  1. "Pingolin" in Portuguese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Did those guys realize what "pangolin" means in Brazilian Portuguese??
    Tip: it's a male organ... (LOL !!!)

    1. Re:"Pingolin" in Portuguese by David+Gerard · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dude. 8.04 was called "Hairy Hardon."

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  2. Precise Pangolin by NonSequor · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaqqV--rnGY

    If I'm going to have a pangolin related song from a cartoon i watched 25 years ago stuck in my head, then I'm taking all of you down with me.

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  3. Re:All bugs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And this will be accomplished by re-designating all "Major" bugs to "Minor" 48 hours before Gold Date.

    We cut out the hard part and pass the savings on to us!

  4. Pfft! Preposterous! by grahamd0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Canonical has lost all respect from me by passing on the opportunity to call their release "Pretty Pony".

    Some people just have no class.

  5. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You sure showed them! You dropped Kubuntu because it would only be maintained by the community in favor of a distro that would only be maintained by the community .

  6. Re:Is that really the name? by Spykk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pedantic Penguin was the obvious choice. I don't know what they were thinking.

  7. Re:All bugs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    If you want suppositories you'll have to switch to Windows.

  8. There's always an alternative.... by couchslug · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.debian.org/

    I think it's a fork of Ubuntu or something.

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  9. Re:All bugs? by devphaeton · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would love a better KDE distro, but it has to use the Debian package management system and have huge respositories.
    Any suggestions?

    How about Debian? It uses the Debian package management system and has huge repositories.

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