Updated images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4

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13 points·galemk2020··9 comments

Sounds promising. Raspbian is cool but occasionally still has some random package missing

Like what? Stuff easily installed?

Last time I checked (maybe a month ago) there was no way to install Firefox on the latest version of Raspbian, as Mozilla doesn’t ship a binary and there wasn’t anything in the repo. The foundation had to ship Chromium on the default image (which is really bad on a low resource device).

I imagine since Canonical and Mozilla are still really good friends, they must have it in the Ubuntu repo for Pi/arm. Alas, I’m not at my pi right now or I’d download the image.

They do. Although Firefox too runs bad on rpi.

Someone told me to use the successor of zram (can't remember its name) to get much better browser performance.

Forgot what exactly I was trying to do but occasionally you get a apt message saying this package can't be found but is referenced by other packages.

I had assumed that to mean not everything was ported to arm but that's a guess.

Ended up installing from a git repo

It's also nice to have the exact same setup on your iot box and your main PC.

Things like containers work out of there box which is really useful.

Is this the first time Ubuntu provided real 64bit images?

Why is this news? There should be new images regularly created.

I believe this is the first release with USB working on the 4GB rpi4.

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