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May 24, 2023

Ubuntu 23.04 Now Works on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced today that they’ve published an optimized version of Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) for StarFive's VisionFive 2 RISC-V single-board computer.

This is the second time Canonical has partnered with StarFive Technology, a high-tech company developing world-leading RISC-V-based products, to bring its Ubuntu Linux operating system to the latest models of the company's single-board RISC-V computers.

Last year in August, Canonical announced that Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS has been optimized for the VisionFive RISC-V SBC, and now, the latest release, Ubuntu 23.04, will be available for the VisionFive 2 SBC, a high-performance and low-cost development platform designed for a wide range of edge computing use cases.

The VisionFive 2 RISC-V single-board computer is powered by StarFive's JH7110 64-bit SoC, which is equipped with a high-performance 64-bit RISC-V processor with 1.5 GHz clock speed and an integrated 3D GPU, up to 8 GB DDR4 RAM, a 40-pin GPIO header, two RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet ports, an M.2 M-Key slot, and HDMI 2.0 video output.

VisionFive 2 is capable of H.264 and H.265 [email protected] video decoding, H.265 [email protected] video encoding, and features a JPEG encoder/decoder. StarFive Technology claims that VisionFive 2 is the world's first RISC-V SBC equipped with a 3D GPU for mass production.

If you plan on using Ubuntu Linux on StarFive's VisionFive 2 RISC-V single-board computer, you can download the optimized Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) image right now from the official website.

Image credits: StarFive Technologies (edited by Marius Nestor)

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