Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker

Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker is a spin off from the Raspberry Pi 2 initiative for Ubuntu MATE. The basic idea is simple; make as many Ubuntu flavours for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the Raspberry Pi 3 we can.

Tasty Ubuntu fillings for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3

A community project to make Ubuntu based operating systems for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3.

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Comparison

All the images will fit on a 4GB (or larger) microSHDC card, are pre-configured to enable access to Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 hardware devices such as GPIO, SPI, I2C, etc and include replacement memcpy and memset functionality for the Raspberry Pi to optimise performance. The images also support the integrated Wifi and Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi 3.

The table below summarises how the images differ from one another.

	Ubuntu Core	Ubuntu Server for Pi 2	Ubuntu Server for Pi 3	Lubuntu	Xubuntu	Ubuntu MATE
Minimum SDHC card	1GB	4GB	4GB	4GB	4GB	6GB
Snap Package Compatible	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Desktop Environment	n/a	n/a	n/a	LXDE	XFCE	MATE
Raspberry Pi 3 Wifi Support	Yes	n/a	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Raspberry Pi 3 Bluetooth Support	Yes	n/a	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Support	Official	Official	Community	Community	Community	Community
First Boot Wizard	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Raspberry Pi Python Stack	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
omxplayer	n/a	n/a	n/a	Yes	Yes	Yes
Python IDLE	n/a	n/a	n/a	No !	No !	Yes
YouTube-DL	n/a	n/a	n/a	No !	No !	Yes
Minecraft Pi Edition	n/a	n/a	n/a	No !	No !	Yes
Scratch	n/a	n/a	n/a	No !	No !	Yes
Sonic Pi	n/a	n/a	n/a	No !	No !	Yes

! Not installed by default, but available for install via apt-get.

Screenshots

Here are a few screenshots of Ubuntu MATE to give you a feel for how it looks.

Frequently asked questions

There are some questions we are asked frequently so we’ve compiled a list of answers to the most common questions.

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