Install Ubuntu 18.10 on your Raspberry with RaspEX LXDE

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La Raspberry is certainly a great device that, despite its small size, gives us many features that we can take advantage of, all you have to do is put a bit of your ingenuity.

Though there are many projects on the net that you can find and apply yourself, in addition there are many operating systems that we can implement in this excellent pocket mini computer.

Many of the readers here, will know or you have heard that the Raspberry has an official operating system What is Raspbian, which, although it is an excellent system, not everyone ends up liking it.

That is why today we are going to talk about another operating system that we can implement in our small device.

How will they know Raspbian is a system that takes Debian as its base and it has several modifications and a special desktop environment for it. But for today's case we are going to talk about a system that is based on Ubuntu 18.10.

RaspEX LXDE

RaspEX LXDE is a system that was created by developer Arne Exton, this developer has implemented several systems for the Raspberry pi, of which we can mention RaspAnd (Android for Raspberry), RaspArch (Arch Linux) and RaspEX LXDE (Ubuntu).

The developer recently announced the launch of a new version of its RaspEX Linux operating system for Raspberry Pi devices, arriving with its new version RaspEX LXDE 18.10 (Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish).

What is special in this new version of RaspEX is that, although is based on Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish), uses the old LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) instead of the new LXQt variant, which probably consumes more CPU and RAM resources than the Raspberry.

This is precisely the two main limitations of the little Raspberry.

About the new version of RaspEX LXDE

This new version of RaspEX LXDE Build 181022 is powered by Linux kernel 4.14.76 compiled for the LTS ARMv8 architecture, which means it is compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B as well as the latest Raspberry Pi 3 Model B + variant.

However, You can also use a 32-bit kernel which is Linux Kernel 4.14.74 LTS.

Arne Exton the developer of this system said he commented some things about his new release:

«I made an extra version of Raspex LXDE, Raspex build 181022 which uses a 64 bit kernel - 4.14.76-v8 +. Although users can easily revert to the original 32-bit kernel (4.14.74-v7 +) if they don't find the 64-bit kernel useful. as the Raspberry Pi 3 model b and b + only have 1gb of ram, it might be useless to run a 64-bit kernel. «

Building on the recent Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) we can find that all packages included in this new version by RaspEX LXDE Build 181022 they are up to date to the most recent version of these.

Of the notable packages included in this version that we can highlight are Raspotify which is a Spotify Connect client for Raspberry Pi, Putty, RealVNC and Samba devices.

On the other hand, the support for wireless networks (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) works as expected, however, it is necessary to have to do some extra things after installing the RaspEX LXDE Build 181022 on your Raspberry Pi.

Download RaspEX LXDE

In order to test this system for your Raspberry Pi, You must go to the developer's website where you can find the link to obtain this system.

The link is this.

The image can be recorded on your microSD previously formatted with the help of Etcher.

Finally, to access the system they will have to enter Slim using the username "root" and the password "root".

Also, if they want to occupy all the space on the microSD they must execute the command "sh resize_rootfs.sh" in a terminal.

Additionally if you want, you can also run the command "dphys-swapfile setup" to create a 2GB swap file, which needs to be activated with the command "dphys-swapfile swapon".


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