Armbian Leaflet #27
Dear Armbians, This week, we bring you a roundup of exciting developments and updates from the Armbian community. From kernel enhancements to device-specific improvements, there’s plenty to dive into. Plus, we announce the winners of the Radxa Rock 5 ITX giveaway! Read on for all the details. Kernel and Device Tree Updates: sunxi-6.1: Fixed a …
Armbian Leaflet #26
Dear Armbians, Some fresh news for you! Smaller and Leaner Minimal Images Our minimal images have been further optimized, now featuring the smallest possible footprint while maintaining core OS functionality. We’ve decoupled networking from the main build framework, enabling the use of systemd-networkd, essential for keeping images lean. Network Manager is still present on server …
Simple
We use stock Debian utilities along with our powerful menu driven configuration tool. We use plain Bash shell and lightweight XFCE based desktop.Lightweight
We use standard boot, config and update methods. Our user-space footprint is minimal and special config utilities are optional.Optimised
A distributed image is compressed to its real data size which starts below 1G. Login is possible via serial, HDMI/VGA or SSH.Fast
We use kernel power management, memory log caching, browser profile memory caching, ZRAM swap, garbage commit delay and video acceleration where applicable.Secure
Armbian is regularly inspected by professionals within a community. This makes Armbian a good starting point for industrial or home usage.Supported
We provide long-term kernel and boot loader updates, quick security fixes, documentation and free end user support. Armbian is a base for many 3rd party projects.How to start?
Find your board and download one of the available images. Archives can be uncompressed with 7-Zip on Windows, Keka on OS X and 7z on Linux (apt-get install p7zip-full). RAW images can be written with Etcher (all OS).
Make sure you have a good & reliable SD card and a proper power supply. Insert SD card into a slot and power the board. First boot takes up to 35 seconds with an average SD Card and on the cheapest board.
Log in as root on HDMI / serial console or via SSH and use password 1234. You will be prompted to change this password. Next, you will be asked to create a normal user account that is sudo enabled (beware of default QWERTY keyboard settings at this stage).