Since the arrival of ARM processors, many devices have emerged that make use of the benefits it offers, such as we found Raspberry Pi this is a device that has revolutionized miniature PCs, so it is also an excellent option in terms of cost and portability.
This small pocket computer has many accessories so its uses and functions depend on the user's needs. At the moment I will only leave you a small tutorial on how to install Ubuntu on this device.
Although there is the Raspbian distribution, for now I prefer to leave this option aside, so I prefer to get Ubuntu on this small device.
In order to enjoy Ubuntu, we will use the image that they offer us with Ubuntu Mate, so we must go to your website and download the image, the link is this.
At the moment only version 16.04 is available for our device.
Done the download of the image it is extremely necessary to verify that our SD where we will place the system image is class 8 or higher, since if the opposite is the case, the data transfer offered by the lower ones will give us an extremely bad experience.
Now the download is done we go to our system on our desktop PC to be able to record the image of the system in our SD, we will open a terminal and execute the following commands:
sudo apt-get install gddrescue xz-utils
Done this pwe will unzip the file that we downloaded from the system image, we must have identified where we save it to proceed with the following command:
unxz ubuntu-mate-16.04.2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img.xz
Done this, we proceed to connect our SD card to our computer and we must identify which mounting point it hasOnce this is done, we will save the system image with the following command:
sudo ddrescue -D --force ubuntu-mate-16.04.2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img /dev/sdx
Where SDX is the path that your SD has as a mount point.
And ready with this we proceed to place the SD card in our Raspberry and confirm that everything has been installed correctly.