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Ubuntu 12.04 has already seen the light. With the Precise Pangolin nickname, this new version of Ubuntu is accompanied by interesting changes.

For starters, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has five years of technical support for security updates. In addition, Ubuntu 12.04 offers a new way to access your applications and documents with HUD, includes Rhythmbox instead of Banshee and updated the majority of programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, PRI and Shotwell, among others.

Now I explain these changes in more detail.

Long Term Support (LTS)

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You now have one more reason to install Google Chrome browser. Google has just released an extension called Chrome Remote Desktop, which allows you to remotely access another computer directly from Chrome.

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