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What Does Community Support Mean?

Community maintained targets have full featured Armbian OS support but lack quality control imposed by Armbian standard support criteria. Boards are supported / maintained at least on the level of 3rd party Linux distributions. They are maintained (or not maintained) by community members (like you). These builds are provided by the Armbian project as a service to the community. They are automatically generated and untested.

What you can do to help lifting support status?

  • serial console is enabled on UART1, which is exposed on chasis,
  • mUSB console is also enabled for login
  • Bluetooth is not yet enabled.
  • One Ethernet device gets random MAC

Fast, verified download & flash (recommended)

Armbian Imager is a lightweight, native flashing tool that supports both selecting and downloading an Armbian image before flashing, as well as flashing an already downloaded image.


Server images with Armbian Linux v6.12

Build Date: Jan 5, 2026

Distro Variant Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Server / CLI SHA    ASC 406.5 MB
 
* Server / CLI images comes with Network Manager and include packages like armbian-config, armbian-zsh etc.

Minimal/IOT images with Armbian Linux v6.12

Build Date: Jan 5, 2026

Distro Variant Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Debian 12 (Bookworm) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 244.6 MB
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 235.6 MB
Debian 13 (Trixie) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 266.6 MB
 
* Minimal images have very small footprint. They come only with essential packages and build-in systemd-networkd. They are optimised for automation and production deployments.
Use armbian-install utility to transfer live image to fixed storage

Specifications

1000tx 100tx 1wire 32bit 4 core CAN UASP bluetooth docker eMMC i2c spi wifi wireguard Allwinner H3

* Specifications differ from hardware revision, model and software support level

FAQs

We provide a selection of images that fits hardware best. If you need different image - use build framework and make whatever you need. Build framework relies on Debian and Ubuntu packages - you can build any combination - stable, old stable or rolling release.
Make sure you have a good & reliable boot media (SD card / USB key) and a proper power supply. Archives can be flashed with Etcher (all OS) directly. Insert the SD card into the slot, connect a cable to your network if possible or a display and power your board. (First) boot (with DHCP) takes a bit longer.

Support is provided in one of two ways:

Armbian images and kernels can be made from scratch. Supported environment for build framework is any any X64 based Linux distribution. You can re-make live bootable image or just a kernel+dtb(hardware configuration) package which you transfer to your image and install with: dpkg -i linux-image-[branch]-family.deb linux-dtb-[branch]-family.deb. In that process you can enforce many customisation.
Current images doesn't work? Use old images from archive and report to forums exactly which image fails.