After receiving five years of support, the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is finally reaching its end of life next month, on April 28, 2017, according to Canonical’s Adam Conrad.
Announced on April 26, 2012, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was dubbed by Mark Shuttleworth as the “Precise Pangolin.” It shipped with the Linux 3.2.12 kernel, GNOME 3.4.1 desktop environment, X.Org 7.6, X.Org Server 1.11.4, Upstart 1.5, both Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3, GCC 4.6.3, as well as the Unity 5.10 2D and 3D interfaces.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was the first release of the popular GNU/Linux distribution to introduce the HUD (Head-Up Display) feature, among many other innovative changes, such as a Unity Video lens, an intelligent login screen, and support for resizing and configuring the behavior of the Unity Launcher.
During these past five years, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) received a total… (read more)
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