Lubuntu developer and main maintainer, Rafael Laguna, has written a post featured on the Lubuntu blog showing the next Lubuntu 16.04 LTS running on a Raspberry Pi 2, with the LXQt desktop as the default graphical environment.
This variant has been created using the Ubuntu Pi Flavor Maker, a tool to port the different versions of Ubuntu to the Raspberry Pi development board, which was created by the Ubuntu MATE team. As for Lubuntu 16.04 LTS, what we can say is that it is currently under development and that finally there seems to be progress when it comes to implementing LXQt in Lubuntu.
Words of Rafael Laguna in the post featured on the Lubuntu blog:
Nice experiment created by Lubuntu QA Team's wxl: running Lubuntu Xenial Xerus on a Raspberry Pi 2 with LXQt desktop. It has been made with Ubuntu Pi Flavor Maker. And that's it. Enjoy Lubuntu on your new Pi. Remember this is just an experiment, it could be unstable.
If you would like to try this version of Lubuntu 16.04 LTS on your Raspberry Pi 2then you will have to download the experimental image, install it on an SD card, update to the Xenial branch, and finally carefully follow the guide posted on Lubuntu Wiki to properly install the LXQt packages.
Lubuntu 16.04 LTS will be released this spring, specifically the day April 21th 2016, along with the rest of the official Ubuntu flavors. We hope that this time it is possible to switch to the LXQt graphical environment as the default desktop in this generation, although for now the first alpha He has let us prove it. We'll see what happens with the second Alpha.
If you dare to test Lubuntu 16.04 LTS on your Raspberry Pi 2, do not hesitate to come and leave us a comment telling us what you think, if LXQt works as well as expected and everything you can think of. We would love to read your opinion.
lxqt reminds me a lot of kde 🙁 that's why it doesn't finish me.
I will prove it. and see how it goes, since ubuntu mate in my RPi2 does not quite convince me.
I will test it in the virtual machine 😀
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A super cool article, I recently had a raspberry pi 1 and I'm tinkering, I have the super cool ubuntu mate 15.10, I still haven't been able to see more, I have it installed on a 32gb sd but the image only gives 4gb and does not leave space to install things.
I'll try this as soon as I can, great article
Thank you
raspberry pi 2 sorry
Currently I see that there are countless ubuntus available for Raspberry (I have 2) ... and I have the doubt which one will be better for it ... lubuntu (which I have in an eeepc notebook and for the moment it pulls) or the mate ... the mate It is more renowned ... but lubuntu should be better, right? All the best!