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To my understanding, the Raspberry Pi supports Debian. Has anyone had any success running Ubuntu on it?

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Are there any particular features of Ubuntu you would like? – Alex Chamberlain Jun 13 '12 at 7:07
@AlexChamberlain: It's my favorite desktop distribution, so I would have intention to try to stay with it on my new computer as well :) – Oliver Salzburg Jun 13 '12 at 10:33
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Fair enough, I was just going to say a lot of the features can be found on Debian anyway. Unity excluded. – Alex Chamberlain Jun 13 '12 at 10:36

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From the Official FAQ Page:

What Linux distros will be supported at launch?

Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We hope to see support from other distros later. (Because of issues with newer releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu can’t commit to support Raspberry Pi at the moment.) You will be able to download distro images from us as soon as the Raspberry Pi is released, and we will also be selling pre-loaded SD cards shortly after release.

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Short answer. You cannot currently install Ubuntu.

There is no port for ARMv6. Earlier versions (jaunty, karmic) had limited support.

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some info: wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM – Tshepang Jul 26 '12 at 6:06

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