2012-03-04, 12:48 PM
Here's a rather disorganised and random set of screenshots from the beta of Precise Pangolin LTS (12.04), which was released on March 1st, 2012.
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A nice touch -- I think the installer detected my location as in the United Kingdom, and pre-filled the timezone and keyboard layout settings.
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The desktop
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A few new Appearance settings for having a little bit of control over Unity.
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The obligatory "here's this site in the target OS" screenshot.
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Interesting new privacy preferences, which allow you some control over the information Ubuntu and applications remember about your computing session.
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It is a beta OS, so it's not stable just yet!
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Updated LibreOffice, RhythmBox as the default music player...
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The Software Centre, still looking pretty similar to 11.10.