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

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:

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:
  • 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.