Xubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 is now available for testing!

Feb 5, 2012 13:01 GMT  ·  By

On February 2nd, Canonical unleashed for testing the second and last Alpha version of the upcoming Xubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) operating system.

Xubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 is powered by Linux kernel 3.2.2 and is built on top of the Xfce 4.8 desktop environment. It features a new greeter and desktop theme, as well as minor changes to various packages and default settings (including the size of the Terminal font).

The distro also has an updated xfdesktop4 package that allows users to single click on items to open them, and provides thumbnail support for the desktop. xfce4-settings was also updated to include a new touchpad/mouche dialog.

The second Alpha of Xubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) is distributed as Live CD (Desktop and Alternate editions) ISO images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Download Xubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is an alpha release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.

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