Ubuntu MATE 22.04, one of the seven official flavors of Ubuntu, is now officially optimized for the Raspberry Pi. The operating system of the British Linux distributor Canonical relies on the MATE desktop environment, which originally resulted from a fork of Gnome 2, and special kernels.
A Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB should Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS can be used specially adapted on the single-board computer. In addition to the Pi4/2GB, Pi4/4GB and Pi4/8GB, three memory cards of the type microSDXC and microSDHC from Samsung, SanDisk and Kingston also receive an official recommendation from the Canonical-funded Ubuntu MATE team as well as the kernel and security teams.< /p>
Optimized for Arm and Pi
The official release notes indicate the performance optimizations of the operating system on the single-board computers by the Ubuntu kernel team as well as the regular security updates by the Ubuntu security team as a highlight of the version.
High-level features of these images are:
Ubuntu kernel.
Performance optimized by the Ubuntu Kernel team.
Regularly security patches by the Ubuntu Security team.
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS for Raspberry Pi – Release Notes
The new official spin of Ubuntu is to be released for ARMv7 32-bit and ARMv8 64-bit in the future and supports the Raspberry Pi 2 in addition to the 4th generation and Raspberry Pi 3, and the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer.
The official compatibility list provides further details on the compatible models and the recommended amount of RAM.
For developers too
With the official flavor of its Linux distribution, which is extremely popular with Linux beginners in particular, Canonical wants to inspire owners of single-board computers to use their own operating system and also appeals in particular to developers who develop on the basis of ARM64.
Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi provides a complete, familiar, desktop environment that can be used for basic desktop computing.
It is also of interest to makers and device hackers who want to target Ubuntu for their projects.
You can prototype homebrew ARMv7 or ARMv8 based IoT devices in a comfortable desktop environment, including building and testing your apps as snaps. The full Ubuntu archive is available to you.
Ubuntu MATE Team/Canonical
The new offshoot “Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi” is intended to be the professional version of the “Ubuntu Desktop for Linux Developers” and will primarily appeal to professionals looking for a developer platform based on Ubuntu and ARM64.
For hobbyist projects, you can stick with Ubuntu MATE for deployment. But, if you have something more professional in mind then the applications and snaps you've prototyped with Ubuntu MATE can be used with Ubuntu Server or Ubuntu Core. You might want to check out the Ubuntu Appliance Portfolio too.
Ubuntu MATE Team/Canonical
Besides the ones for armhf (ARMv7 32-bit) and arm64 (ARMv8 64-bit) optimized system images, installation instructions can also be found on the project's official website.
More information can be found in the ComputerBase articles on the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (“Jammy Jellyfish “), which is the basis for Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS.
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