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What does it mean when Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has greater RPi support than previously? Does that mean you can install it instead of Raspian? If so, is that useful?

Disbursed wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 12:45 pm

What does it mean when Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has greater RPi support than previously? Does that mean you can install it instead of Raspian? If so, is that useful?

viewforum.php?f=131

fruitoftheloom wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 12:48 pm

Disbursed wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 12:45 pm

What does it mean when Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has greater RPi support than previously? Does that mean you can install it instead of Raspian? If so, is that useful?

viewforum.php?f=131

Thank you for the link. I would still like to know what "support" means in this context, however. What does it mean when Ubuntu (or any other LInux distro) adds "support?" It's Linux - why wouldn't it work?

Disbursed wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 1:51 pm

fruitoftheloom wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 12:48 pm

Disbursed wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 12:45 pm

What does it mean when Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has greater RPi support than previously? Does that mean you can install it instead of Raspian? If so, is that useful?

viewforum.php?f=131

Thank you for the link. I would still like to know what "support" means in this context, however. What does it mean when Ubuntu (or any other LInux distro) adds "support?" It's Linux - why wouldn't it work?

Only the Ubuntu Developers can state the level of support they offer for the ARMv7 & ARMv8 Raspberry Pi Single Board Computers.

Kernel, Firmware, Drivers, Official Raspberry Pi Peripherals, may or may not function or have compatibility issues.

Ubuntu have their own forums, the forum on this board was offered as a goodwill gesture, so you need to ask Canonical



With Raspbian Buster Operating System it is a given that it fully supports every Raspberry Pi and Compute Module as well as Official Peripherals ever manufactured over 8+ years:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/

fruitoftheloom wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 2:05 pm

Kernel, Firmware, Drivers, Official Raspberry Pi Peripherals, may or may not function or have compatibility issues.

With Raspbian Buster Operating System it is a given that it fully supports every Raspberry Pi and Compute Module as well as Official Peripherals ever manufactured over 8+ years:

I regret even mentioning Ubuntu, as it was a definitional question not Ubuntu-specific: what does "support" mean? It was so basic that I asked it in Beginners' Forum. I can see now that including the term "Ubuntu" (meant as an example) triggered something sensitive.

So, I take it that "support" means function and compatibility. Thanks.

Disbursed wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 2:51 pm

fruitoftheloom wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 2:05 pm

Kernel, Firmware, Drivers, Official Raspberry Pi Peripherals, may or may not function or have compatibility issues.

With Raspbian Buster Operating System it is a given that it fully supports every Raspberry Pi and Compute Module as well as Official Peripherals ever manufactured over 8+ years:

I regret even mentioning Ubuntu, as it was a definitional question not Ubuntu-specific: what does "support" mean? It was so basic that I asked it in Beginners' Forum. I can see now that including the term "Ubuntu" (meant as an example) triggered something sensitive.

So, I take it that "support" means function and compatibility. Thanks.

Ubuntu is not a sensitive subject, just that the Raspberry Pi Foundation / Trading offer this forum, therefore the emphasis is on their products and software support. Rightly so they have an expectation that any developer who offers an Operating System should provide their own support.


Support means when something does not work the developers will endeavour to offer a solution.

That is true of MacOS, Windows NT, ChromeOS, iOS, Android and the various BSD, Unix & Linux distributions etal..

Disbursed wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 2:51 pm

fruitoftheloom wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 2:05 pm

Kernel, Firmware, Drivers, Official Raspberry Pi Peripherals, may or may not function or have compatibility issues.

With Raspbian Buster Operating System it is a given that it fully supports every Raspberry Pi and Compute Module as well as Official Peripherals ever manufactured over 8+ years:

I regret even mentioning Ubuntu, as it was a definitional question not Ubuntu-specific: what does "support" mean? It was so basic that I asked it in Beginners' Forum. I can see now that including the term "Ubuntu" (meant as an example) triggered something sensitive.

So, I take it that "support" means function and compatibility. Thanks.

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

A bit hippo-critical, as I went in there head first once (Look at the sticky new ubuntu sub forum, second page).

Sigh, that was my most shameful post I ever posted.