• The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later.
  • Precise will be delivered in April 2012. It will be designated 12.04 LTS.
  • ubuntu-meta (1.267) precise; urgency=low. * Refreshed dependencies to fix oversized PowerPC images * Removed libreoffice-calc from desktop-recommends...
  • Ubuntu releases are made semiannually by Canonical Ltd, its developers, using the year and month of the release as a version number.
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is Canonical’s sixteenth release of Ubuntu and its fourth long-term support (LTS) release...
  • Ubuntu is a free and open source Linux operating system (currently the most popular Linux distribution) installed on over 40 million personal computers, and is...
  • ..."precise-updates" and "precise-backports" I only know "precise" means the code name of Ubuntu release 12.04.
  • Malte Sussdorff from Cognovis for providing the original version of these instructions for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and making sure the fix for broken Ubuntu packages...
  • The desktop cd allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later.