Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Released

It's this week that Canonical has announced the first of two alpha releases for their Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin line.

There aren't many visual changes or upgrades but there are some in terms of software choices:

• Banshee, Tomboy and gbrainy have been removed (for now)
• Rhythmbox is the default music app, although it lacks the Ubuntu One Music Store plugin at this stage
• Firefox 9 Beta and Thunderbird 9 Beta are included
• The Linux Kernel is version 3.2.0-2
• The latest Ubuntu Software Centre adds support for multiple screenshots
• Squid3 is now installed by the squid package, Cobbler is now based on the upstream 2.2.2 version, and the Openstack components are now based off Essex 2

That's all the software choices at this point of release and as always, you can download the daily builds here.

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Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1, can be downloaded in a variety of images here.

Release Schedule
December 1st, 2011 - Alpha 1 release
February 2nd, 2012 - Alpha 2 release
March 1st, 2012 - Beta 1 release
March 22nd, 2012 - Beta 2 release
April 19th, 2012 - Release Candidate release
April 26th, 2012 - Final release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Stay tuned this weekend for opinions and other things on the matter.