Canonical unleashed yesterday, April 26th, the highly anticipated Precise Pangolin upgrade of its popular Ubuntu operating system, including the Kubuntu 12.04, Xubuntu 12.04 and Lubuntu 12.04 flavors.

Lubuntu 12.04 is an not an LTS (Long Term Support) release, which means it will only be supported for 18 moths.

Dubbed Precise Pangolin, Lubuntu 12.04 is powered by Linux kernel 3.2 and it is distributed as Live CD ISO images (Alternative and Desktop editions) for the 32-bit, 64-bit and PowerPC architectures.

The LXDE based distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04 comes with new artwork, optimized software center and LightDM as the default login manager.

For more details, you can read our Lubuntu 12.04 announcement, and view the screenshot tour provided by Softpedia below. Download Lubuntu 12.04 right now from Softpedia.

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