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Desktop CD
The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this CD.
There are four images available, each for a different type of computer:
- PC (Intel x86) desktop CD
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type
processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as
newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you
are at all unsure.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine. - 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T
architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have
a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for
32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine. - 64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop CD
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T
architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon). If you have a non-64-bit
processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the
Intel x86 images instead. This image is adjusted to work properly on Mac
systems.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine. - Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) desktop CD
- For Apple Macintosh G3, G4, and G5 computers, including iBooks and
PowerBooks as well as IBM OpenPower machines.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine.
A full list of available files can be found below.
If you need help burning these images to disk, see the CD Burning Guide.
Name Last modified Size Description
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MD5SUMS 08-Feb-2012 08:00 245
precise-desktop-amd64+mac.OVERSIZED 08-Feb-2012 07:59 0
precise-desktop-amd64+mac.iso 08-Feb-2012 07:58 716M Desktop CD for 64-bit Mac (AMD64) computers (standard download)
precise-desktop-amd64+mac.metalink 08-Feb-2012 08:00 1.0K