One of the most outstanding novelties that came with Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine was the official and improved support for the Raspberry Pi. Eoan Ermine has been with us for almost 4 months and the page where we could download Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi was a bit confusing, but that is past. This week, Canonical has redesigned the website to make it easier for us to download the perfect ISO image for our board.
The new website, which you can access from this link, is the one that you have heading this article. Basically it is a graph in which they separate plate models, operating systems, currently to choose between Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10, and 32-bit and 64-bit versions. In addition, they have also modified the header of it, adding some of the purple and orange color of the standard version of Ubuntu.
Canonical offers us Ubuntu Server, a system without a user interface
The previous design is the one you have above these lines. Practically, the design is conspicuous by its absence, showing it all in one much more generic and confusing way. Not to mention that the only color we see is the orange of the check boxes. Of course, they had added the Raspberry Pi logo. It's something. But there is something that remains and it is something that I personally do not like.
What Canonical offers us for our Raspberry Pi is Ubuntu Server, more specifically a ready-made image of this version of the company's system run by Mark Shuttleworth. This presents us with two problems: the first is that, although not even in the old version of the page they mention it, we will need to connect to the internet with the cable if we want to do anything. The image does not include the tools to connect via WiFi installed by default, which is a problem from the point of view of the author of this article. On the other hand, and this happens in all operating systems that are not installed via NOOBSAnother problem is that we will be installing an operating system that cannot have more than 4GB, a little less if we do not install a graphical environment. That is another: we have to install the graphical environment separately, something that we cannot do without an internet connection.
In any case, Canonical has updated their website for the Raspberry Pi and 4 months ago improved support for raspberry plates. Hopefully, in the not too distant future they release something more worthwhile.
Great!!! What a great news.