ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

[Tommy Vercetti]

The latest Canonical release becomes/became available today.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

If you're downloading it today, remember to use bit torrents to help the community manage resources for the first rush.

[ahow]

Also, this is a long-term support version so it should be extra stable and will be the only Ubuntu you need for a couple years.

I've heard Unity is way better this go round.

[ahow]

Also, this is a long-term support version so it should be extra stable and will be the only Ubuntu you need for a couple years.

I've heard Unity is way better this go round.

[Tommy Vercetti]

upgrading... man, it is slow now.

[secondlife]

If you are a casual computer user, do you really need to upgrade? When linux kernel 3.0 came out I was all gung ho about linux and I installed that to work with 10.04 on my old machine. That was little exciting. It works fine.

I wonder whether Ubuntu will ever replace OS-X. What do you guys do with your computers with ubuntu in it?

[Tommy Vercetti]

all kinds of things... what do you do with your computer?

[Ron Weasley]

I upgraded my Kubuntu last night. I went that route last cycle for the KDE desktop over Unity. I'm interested on hearing from the AO the impressions of the Unity update and the HUD. Over time, I expect that these will mature to something I like.

Other than Lightroom, I use my laptop for the same things I would use a WIN7 powered laptop for, just more easily and fewer surprises. I still haven't found anything, free or otherwise, that works as well as Lightroom for my photography workflow.

[sloppyjoe]

Will probably upgrade my HTPC, which I've been keeping on the LTS releases.

[GadgetGeek]

Been crazy busy with real world stuff. In another week it should free up a bit, then I'll grab 12.04 and fire up a VM to test it for a while. I'm running the last gnome based and don't see much reason to change. Except for occassionally firing up an XP VM to do some Excel work (still no sumifs in LibreOffice), everything I do (at home) has been on Ubuntu.

[Tommy Vercetti]

sloppyjoe, if everything is working okay for your HTPC, why upgrade? you might want to wait a little bit and make sure all the other programs can run smoothly in Pangolin.

Ron, I think the genome desktop option is back! I haven't try it yet, but the option to log in gnome is there.
the default for unity will not auto hide. They disable the upper left coner to call the unity bar and reduced the sensitivety for unity bar a little.