New Features in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

April 26th was a very big day for Ubuntu users as it marks the release of Precise Pangolin (12.04), which is very important for Ubuntu because:

1. It is an LTS release.
2. It is the first LTS release with Unity.
3. The focus of this release has been tweaking and polishing Unity so that it qualifies for LTS status.

So why should one install Precise Pangolin? Well, for one there are a plethora of useful new features with this release:

Note: I know this is quite late but I was half finished with this article on release date before I got a gigantic amount of assignments.

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