Lubuntu (light weight Ubuntu) for the LattePanda V1 is available – Chris Titus Tech shows how to install Lubuntu

Last Updated on April 20, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

According to this table we can see how difficult it is to find in Switzerland an affordable single board computer for mobile application on which everything works:

Comparison table of selected SBC’s which are suitable for mobile computing applications

The LattePanda V1 running Lubuntu is a candiate to solve this problem. The following video from Chris Titus Tech shows the installation of Lubuntu, which is very easy:

• It can be installed for instance on a old Acer one notebook.

• Lubuntu is a light weight Linux distribution with a barebone minimalistic environment.
• It runs faster than Windows and loads usually in about 30 sec.
• The example shows a PC with 1.5 GB memory.
• Lubuntu uses less than 400 MB, and is especially suitable for old hardware.

• There is an instruction from DF Robot how to install Lubuntu on the LattePanda V1:

How to install Lunbutu 20.04 on the LattePanda and solve the problems of the BT/Wifi/Audio Output/Touch Panel

• For other single board computers we do not have a light weight linux distro, for instance for the Mango Pi MQ quatt, we only have a full blown Debian for this small device.
• We do not know of any armbian SBC which supports touch
• The LattePanda V1 with Lubuntu and the 7 inch DFRobot touch overlay supports touch.
• Lubuntu is suitable for beginners.
• It has little overhead.