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Une version Ubuntu 24.04 pour la SBC Milk-V Mars sous Risc-V

30 mai 2024 à 09:15

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Depuis 2021 Canonical propose des versions d’Ubuntu à destination de l’architecture RISC-V. Aujourd’hui c’est au tour d’une version officielle d’Ubuntu 24.04 Server de venir s’implanter sur la Mars-V et son SoC StarFive JH7110. Une puce qui propose quatre cœurs RISC-V.

Evidemment, cette version du système d »exploitation Linux sera également compatible avec d’autres solutions RISC-V et que tout l’écosystème devrait en profiter. Pour le moment, Canonical ne propose pas de gestion du circuit graphique de ces puces et c’est donc bien la version serveur du système qui sera déployée. On pourra piloter la carte Milk-V à distance mais aucune solution de gestion d’affichage directe ne sera possible. Cela reste une avancée pratique pour certains usages et devrait justement permettre à plus de monde de s’impliquer dans le développement d’un meilleur support matériel.

Autres « détails », la gestion du PCIe de la carte Milk-V n’est pas encore finalisée. Si il est possible de piloter un stockage NVMe PCIe, aucune carte Wi-Fi ni aucune solution pour utiliser un circuit graphique externe ne sera fonctionnelle pour le moment. Dernier point sensible, l’absence de gestion des ports USB 2.0 de la carte même si les ports USB 3.0 sont bien actifs.

Le communiqué de presse : 

Londres, Royaume-Uni – Le 30 mai 2024 – Canonical, un leader de l’Open Source et éditeur d’Ubuntu, annonce la disponibilité de l’image optimisée Ubuntu 24.04 pour Milk-V Mars, le premier ordinateur monocarte RISC-V haute performance de la taille d’une carte de crédit fourni par Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co, Ltd.

Milk-V et Canonical ont conclu un accord dans le but d’apporter Ubuntu 24.04 aux nouveaux appareils RISC-V. Milk-V fournira du matériel à Canonical et offrira un système d’exploitation Ubuntu comme principal système supporté à travers des facteurs de forme et des cas d’utilisation, avec un accent particulier sur l’informatique accélérée et l’IA. Avec le soutien des équipes matérielles et techniques de Milk-V, Canonical s’appuiera sur les conceptions RISC-V les plus performantes pour améliorer en permanence Ubuntu et l’écosystème open source plus large pour l’ISA RISC-V. Lorsque de nouveaux produits Milk-V seront disponibles, Canonical collaborera avec Milk-V pour lancer des images Ubuntu de prévisualisation pour les développeurs et prendre en charge les mises à jour de versions. Cette collaboration vise à fournir aux utilisateurs de la plateforme d’architecture RISC-V un système d’exploitation riche conçu pour améliorer le développement et l’expérience des utilisateurs.

RISC-V devient un système d’exploitation compétitif sur de nombreux marchés. Dans cette optique, le portage d’Ubuntu sur RISC-V afin d’en faire le système d’exploitation de référence pour les utilisateurs précoces était un choix naturel.

“Ubuntu est l’un des systèmes d’exploitation les plus classiques et les plus populaires, et Milk-V Mars est un excellent produit SBC pour les développeurs, intégrant un GPU haute performance et des interfaces riches”, a déclaré Ke Yiran, vice-président de Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co. “ Nous sommes ravis de collaborer avec Canonical pour fournir une version optimisée d’Ubuntu sur Milk-V Mars, ce qui accélère l’innovation et la mise sur le marché pour les développeurs”.

“Canonical s’est toujours engagé à soutenir la communauté des développeurs en fournissant le dernier et le meilleur de l’open source à travers divers ISA. Nous sommes ravis de collaborer avec Milk-V pour permettre l’utilisation d’Ubuntu sur la carte Milk-V Mars SBC », a déclaré Gordan Markuš, directeur des alliances Silicon chez Canonical. “Il est vraiment passionnant de voir la carte Milk-V Mars sur le marché avec son prix abordable et ses fonctionnalités robustes, ce qui en fait une solution accessible et conviviale pour les développeurs. Ce partenariat souligne notre volonté de démocratiser l’innovation avec nos partenaires grâce à l’open source et aux standards ouverts.”

L’image système est disponible chez Canonical et un guide est proposé.

Milk-V Mars : une SBC format Raspberry sous SoC RISC-V

Source : CNX Software.

Une version Ubuntu 24.04 pour la SBC Milk-V Mars sous Risc-V © MiniMachines.net. 2024.

Ubuntu Linux 24.04 Now Optimized For Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer

Par : msmash
28 mai 2024 à 20:45
BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has officially released the optimized Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a credit-card-sized RISC-V single board computer (SBC) developed by Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co., Ltd. The Milk-V Mars is the world's first high-performance RISC-V SBC of its size. Powered by the StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor, the board is equipped with up to 8GB of LPDDR4 memory and supports various modern interfaces, including USB 3.0, HDMI 2.0 for 4K output, and Ethernet with PoE capabilities. It also offers comprehensive expansion options with M.2 E-Key and extensive MIPI CSI channels, making it an ideal choice for developers and tech enthusiasts.

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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users

Par : EditorDavid
20 mai 2024 à 01:34
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog OMG Ubuntu: Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it since. But while Wayland is what most of us now log into after installing Ubuntu, anyone doing so on a PC or laptop with an NVIDIA graphics card present instead logs into an Xorg/X11 session. This is because NVIDIA's proprietary graphics drivers (which many, especially gamers, opt for to get the best performance, access to full hardware capabilities, etc) have not supported Wayland as well as as they could've. Past tense as, thankfully, things have changed in the past few years. NVIDIA's warmed up to Wayland (partly as it has no choice given that Wayland is now standard and a 'maybe one day' solution, and partly because it wants to: opportunities/benefits/security). With the NVIDIA + Wayland sitch' now in a better state than before — but not perfect — Canonical's engineers say they feel confident enough in the experience to make the Ubuntu Wayland session default for NVIDIA graphics card users in Ubuntu 24.10.

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Ubuntu Criticized For Bug Blocking Installation of .Deb Packages

Par : EditorDavid
4 mai 2024 à 20:03
The blog It's FOSS is "pissed at the casual arrogance of Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical..... The sheer audacity of not caring for its users reeks of Microsoft-esque arrogance." If you download a .deb package of a software, you cannot install it using the official graphical software center on Ubuntu anymore. When you double-click on the downloaded deb package, you'll see this error, "there is no app installed for Debian package files". If you right-click and choose to open it with Software Center, you are in for another annoyance. The software center will go into eternal loading. It may look as if it is doing something, but it will go on forever. I could even livestream the loading app store on YouTube, and it would continue for the 12 years of its long-term support period. Canonical software engineer Dennis Loose actually created an issue ticket for the problem himself — back in September of 2023. And two weeks ago he returned to the discussion to announce that fix "will be a priority for the next cycle". (Though "unfortunately we didn't have the capacity to work on this for 24.04...) But Its Foss accused Canonical of "cleverly booting out deb in favor of Snap, one baby step at a time" (noting the problem started with Ubuntu 23.10): There is also the issue of replacing deb packages with Snap, even with the apt command line tool. You use 'sudo apt install chromium', you get a Snap package of Chromium instead of Debian The venerable Linux magazine argues that Canonical "has secretly forced Snap installation on users." [I]t looks as if the Software app defaults to Snap packages for everything now. I combed through various apps and found this to be the case.... As far as the auto-installation of downloaded .deb files, you'll have to install something like gdebi to bring back this feature.

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released

Par : BeauHD
25 avril 2024 à 21:10
prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Canonical released today Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) as the latest version of its popular Linux-based operating system featuring some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software. Powered by Linux kernel 6.8, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS features the latest GNOME 46 desktop environment, an all-new graphical firmware update tool called Firmware Updater, Netplan 1.0 for state-of-the-art network management, updated Ubuntu font, support for the deb822 format for software sources, increased vm.max_map_count for better gaming, and Mozilla Thunderbird as a Snap by default. It also comes with an updated Flutter-based graphical desktop installer that's now capable of updating itself and features a bunch of changes like support for accessibility features, guided (unencrypted) ZFS installations, a new option to import auto-install configurations for templated custom provisioning, as well as new default installation options, such as Default selection (previously Minimal) and Extended selection (previously Normal)."

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Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop

Par : BeauHD
19 avril 2024 à 01:25
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I've been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 to the near final Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this laptop up against a fully-updated Microsoft Windows 11 installation. The Framework 16 review unit as a reminder was configured with the 8-core / 16-thread AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Zen 4 SoC with Radeon RX 7700S graphics, a 512GB SN810 NVMe SSD, MediaTek MT7922 WiFi, and a 2560 x 1600 display. In the few months of testing out the Framework 16 predominantly under Linux it's been working out very well. With also having a Windows 11 partition as shipped by Framework, after updating that install it made for an interesting comparison against the Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 24.04 performance. The same Framework 16 AMD laptop was used throughout all of the testing for looking at the out-of-the-box performance across Microsoft Windows 11, Ubuntu 23.10, and the near-final state of Ubuntu 24.04. [...] Out of 101 benchmarks carried out on all three operating systems with the Framework 16 laptop, Ubuntu 24.04 was the fastest in 67% of those tests, the prior Ubuntu 23.10 led in 22% (typically with slim margins to 24.04), and then Microsoft Windows 11 was the front-runner just 10% of the time... If taking the geomean of all 101 benchmark results, Ubuntu 23.10 was 16% faster than Microsoft Windows 11 while Ubuntu 24.04 enhanced the Ubuntu Linux performance by 3% to yield a 20% advantage over Windows 11 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS laptop. Ubuntu 24.04 is looking very good in the performance department and will see its stable release next week.

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Canonical Says Qualcomm Has Joined Ubuntu's 'Silicon Partner' Program

Par : EditorDavid
14 avril 2024 à 18:34
Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Arm are among Canonical's "silicon partners," a program that "ensures maximum Ubuntu compatibility and long-term support with certified hardware," according to Web Pro News. And now Qualcomm is set to be Canonical's next silicon partner, "giving Qualcomm access to optimized versions of Ubuntu for its processors." Companies looking to use Ubuntu on Qualcomm chips will benefit from an OS that provides 10 years of support and security updates. The collaboration is expected to be a boon for AI, edge computing, and IoT applications. "The combination of Qualcomm Technologies' processors with the popularity of Ubuntu among AI and IoT developers is a game changer for the industry," commented Dev Singh, Vice President, Business Development and Head of Building, Enterprise & Industrial Automation, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc... "Optimised Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core images will be available for Qualcomm SoCs," according to the announcement, "enabling enterprises to meet their regulatory, compliance and security demands for AI at the edge and the broader IoT market with a secure operating system that is supported for 10 years." Qualcomm Technologies chose to partner with Canonical to create an optimised Ubuntu for Qualcomm IoT chipsets, giving developers an easy path to create safe, compliant, security-focused, and high-performing applications for multiple industries including industrial, robotics and edge automation... Developers and enterprises can benefit from the Ubuntu Certified Hardware program, which features a growing list of certified ODM boards and devices based on Qualcomm SoCs. These certified devices deliver an optimised Ubuntu experience out-of-the-box, enabling developers to focus on developing applications and bringing products to market.

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