Ubuntu on RISC-V - state of things

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Ubuntu treats RISC-V as a first-class architecture: images exist for SiFive Unleashed/Unmatched, Nezha, StarFive VisionFive and tiny boards like the $30 Lichee RV, server installer Subiquity and desktop via apt install work, and the archive already reaches 93% of main packages versus AMD64. Toolchains (Python, OpenJDK, Node, Go, C/C++), QEMU, Docker and LXD, Snap and Snapcraft are usable; Launchpad build farms and server-grade RISC‑V hardware, secure-world support and real hardware virtualization are still missing and expected to take up to ~2 years.

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1. 0:00Ubuntu on RISC-V intro
2. 1:08Canonical Foundation team
3. 2:12RISC-V architecture overview
4. 3:58RISC-V openness model
5. 5:21RISC-V hardware for Ubuntu
6. 7:04Ubuntu RISC-V support
7. 9:11Ubuntu RISC-V images
8. 10:16Software coverage toolchain
9. 12:46Ubuntu Core desktop PoC
10. 13:51Future RISC-V plans
11. 15:15Developer resources
12. 16:19Q&A hardware

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