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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 three 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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. This image is adjusted to work properly on Mac systems.
A full list of available files can be found below.
If you need help burning these images to disk, see the Image Burning Guide.
Name Last modified Size Description
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precise-desktop-i386.metalink 19-May-2013 08:52 1.0K
MD5SUMS-metalink.gpg 19-May-2013 08:52 198
precise-desktop-i386.iso 19-May-2013 08:52 696M Desktop cd for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download)