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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

After you download and boot?

Basic OS configuration is conducted at first boot. You are asked to set a root password, normal user and confirm your, automatically determined, language settings. If your hardware has internal media, you might want to transfer your OS to it. You can also choose to configure your OS first, setup applications, enable services and install to internal media later.

armbian-config

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You can select different login shell (ZSH), enable 2FA for your SSH, enable virtual read-only file-system, switch to rolling releases, ... and more. Armbian config tool helps you configure your network (static, dynamic, enabling hotspot). Once you are done configurion your OS, you can proceed to software section. Armbian config provides clean and fast way of installing great selection of popular software titles. If you plan to use your board for running a home automation, file server, ad blocking, downloading media, ... we got you covered.

Server images with Armbian Linux v6.12

Build Date: May 21, 2025

Distro Variant Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Server / CLI SHA    ASC 406.5 MB
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Server / CLI SHA    ASC 399.2 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: May 21, 2025

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 12 (Bookworm) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 245.3 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.