The developers of the Ubuntu MATE distribution, built on the Ubuntu package base and offering a desktop environment based on the MATE project, have announced the formation of builds for Raspberry Pi boards. The builds are based on the Ubuntu MATE 22.04 release and are prepared for both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards.
Features stand out:
- Enable the zswap mechanism and the lz4 algorithm by default to compress information on the swap partition.
- Delivery of KMS drivers for VideoCore 4 GPU, as well as v3d driver for VideoCore VI graphics accelerator.
- Default activation of the composite window manager.
- Optimizing the composition of the boot image.
Additionally, we can note the intention of the developers of the Fedora Linux distribution to provide official support for assemblies for Raspberry Pi 4 boards. Until now, the Raspberry Pi 4 board port has not been officially supported by the project due to the lack of open drivers for the graphics accelerator. With the inclusion of the v3d driver in the kernel and Mesa, the problem with the lack of drivers for VideoCore VI has been resolved, so nothing prevents Fedora 37 from implementing official support for these boards.
Source: opennet.ru