Few days ago Ubuntu Mate leader Martin Wimpress announced the launch of the first Beta version of the operating system Ubuntu Mate 18.04 for the small Raspberry Pi single board computer.
Martin Wimpress and his team have been working hard to update Ubuntu Mate 18.04 version for Raspberry Pi for a few weeks and finally they redefined it in the updated version of LTS (long term support), Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).
After some internal alpha mapping, the team is now ready to share the next release with the community. of Linux, inviting all those with a Raspberry Pi to try the Ubuntu Mate 18.04 beta for Raspberry Pi.
"With this beta pre-release, you can see that we are trying to prepare for the next (stable) release," said Martin Wimpress. "We have tried to optimize the Raspberry Pi build without sacrificing the full desktop environment that Ubuntu MATE provides on the PC."
Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B +
La Raspberry Pi 3 Model B + is the latest version of this series of unique boards that have become quite popular and that sFew systems have updated their versions to add support for it.
This is a very favorable new feature of Ubuntu Mate that it offers to owners of this Raspberry Pi who are looking for an alternative to Raspbian.
Also, from this the highlights of Ubuntu Mate 18.04 for Raspberry Pi includes support for other versions such as the Raspberry Pi 2 Model, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and the aforementioned Raspberry Pi 3 Model B +.
Hardware acceleration is another advantage of Ubuntu Mate 18.04 for Raspberry Pi because it allows users to watch videos and use advanced desktop functions.
Among the news that we mention in the Ubuntu Mate blog about this Beta version of Ubuntu Mate 18.04 for Raspberry Pi we find the following:
- Ubuntu kernel, with direct support from the Ubuntu Linux kernel development and security teams.
- Automatic online file system expansion
- Support for Ethernet and WiFi (when available).
- Support for Bluetooth (when available).
- Audio output through the 3.5mm or HDMI analog jack.
- Access to GPIO via GPIO Zero, pigpio and WiringPi.
- Support for Python Wheels for Raspberry Pi.
- USB boot support.
Hardware acceleration:
- The fbturbo driver is installed by default, although limited to an accelerated 2D window.
- VLC and ffmpeg have hardware-assisted video encoding and decoding.
- The experimental VC4 driver can be activated from raspbi-config.
- NOTE: arm64 images do not include any VideoCode IV hardware acceleration.
Additional software:
- A raspi-config port for Ubuntu has been included by default.
- Steam Link available for installation.
- Minecraft Pi Edition available for installation.
Download and install Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Beta 1 for Raspberry Pi?
For those who are interested in being able to try this beta version, they can obtain the image that they offer us directly from the official Ubuntu Mate blog, so we must go to your website and download the image, andThe link is this.
This system image can be recorded with the help of Etcher with which you can create a Bootable USB as well as record the system on the SD cards for the Raspberry pi.
Once the img.xz file is downloaded, create a self-bootable microSD card from which to boot the system.
Or from the terminal we can extract the image with the following command:
xzcat ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-arm64+raspi3-ext4.img.xz| ddrescue -D --force ubuntu-mate-16.04.2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img /dev/sdx
Keep in mind that you must substitute the path of the image "ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-beta1-desktop-arm64+raspi3-ext4.img.xz”Where you have the one you downloaded stored.
And "dev / sdX" by the path of your MicroSD.
Similarly You can find here on the blog some articles where we talk about other systems or projects that you can do with your Raspberry Pi, for this you can use the blog search engine or from this link.