Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin"

Pada tanggal 13 Oktober 2011 yang lalu,Cannonical Ltd telah merelease ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Pada bulan April mendatang, Cannonical Ltd akan merelease ubuntu terbaru, yaitu ubuntu 12.04 dengan Codename Precise Pangolin. Banyak Codename yang usulkan. Tapi mark shuttleworth memutuskan Precis Pangolin sebagai Codename Ubuntu 12.04.
Berikut adalah nama-nama yang diusulkan untuk menjadi codename Ubuntu 12.04:

• Panarchy Panther


• Pink Panther


• Psychotic Pteranodon


• Psychic Pteranodon


• Philanthropic Pteranodon


• Precise Pangolin


• Placid Penguin


• Persistent Penguin


• Pensive Primate


• Productive Penguin


• Paunchy Penguin


• Punchdrunk Pachyderm


• Phat Platypus


• Predatory Panther


• Primeval Possum


• Peccable Peccary


• Pawky Python


• Perfidious Puku

Mengapa di pilih Precise Pangolin? ini ulasan dari Mark Shuttleworth :

“12.04 is an LTS. So we want it to be tough and long-lasting, reliable, solid as a rock and well defended. It’s also going to bethe face of Ubuntu for large deployments for a long time, so we want it to have no loose ends,we want it to be coherent, neat. “We’ve told the story of the cloud in previous releases, and that comes to fruition in 12.04 with the first LTS that supports both the cloud guest, and cloud infrastructure, across ARM and x86 architectures. We’ve also told the story of Unity in previous releases, and that comes to fruition in a fast, lean interface that works well across clients both thick and thin. 12.04 is going to be a lot more than all that, but for the full reveal, you’ll need to wait till UDS!Never the less, we can take reliability, precision, and polish as
a given. Balancing all of those options, I think we have just the right mix in our designated mascot for 12.04 LTS. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Precise Pangolin.”

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin di jadwalkan akan release pada 26 April 2012.