Ubuntu MATE @ubuntumate@ubuntu.social

Beta images of @ubuntu_mate@twitter.com 18.04 for the #raspberry_pi are in private 🛑testing. Although not installed by default, Steam Link and Minecraft Pi Edtion are available post-install 🎮 Accelerated @videolan@twitter.com VLC and @FFmpeg@twitter.com are pre-installed. Public beta expected later this week 🤞

Following yesterday's work on #VLC, this evening I've added an MMAL and OMX accelerated ⚡️@FFmpeg@twitter.activitypub.actor for @ubuntu_mate 18.04 on the #raspberrypi. I'll start preparing beta images, that after a brief period of private 🛑 testing, will be released publicly 🖖

This weekend I've been working on getting accelerated ⚡ video 📺 playback working for @ubuntu_mate on the #Raspberry_Pi and @videolan VLC is now working a treat 🙌🏻 I have some packages to clean up and will then prepare images that I hope will become a public beta.

Alpha 2 images of @ubuntu_mate for the #RaspberryPi have been provided to the private 🔒testing task force 🎖️and includes font cache fixes, pre-seeded snaps (Welcome & Boutique) and reduced 📉RAM consumption by ~30MB on arm64 and ~10MB on armhf. Work on Beta 1 has started 👟