pinebookpro
Community maintained
Desktop

Armbian 24.5.1 Noble Gnome
trunk MESA / VPU
Kernel: 6.6.31, Size: 1.3GB, Release date: May 25, 2024
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Stable user space packages
Minimal

Armbian 24.5.3 Bookworm Minimal / IOT

Kernel: 6.6.36, Size: 250.7MB, Release date: Jul 1, 2024
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Stable user space packages

What Does Community Support Mean?

Community maintained boards are not officially supported by the Armbian project. These boards 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!
    • Some eMMC modules might not work well.
    • Recent batch (since mid-2022) seem to have shipped with a different bootloader configuration, some times preventing booting from SD card and/or eMMC. Until a proper fix can be implemented, the recommended workaround is to install a bootloader to SPI. Further details and instructions can be found in this forum thread.

Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.6

Build Date: May 25, 2024

Distro Desktop Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Debian 12 (Bookworm) Cinnamon SHA    ASC 1.4GB
Debian 12 (Bookworm) XFCE SHA    ASC 1.3GB
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) XFCE SHA    ASC 1.3GB
 
* Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc.

Server and IOT images with Armbian Linux v6.6

Build Date: May 25, 2024

Distro Type Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) Server / CLI SHA    ASC 473.2MB
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Server / CLI SHA    ASC 441MB
Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 228.3MB
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 230.2MB
 
* Minimal images have very small footprint. They come only with essential packages and build-in systemd-networkd.
* Server / CLI images comes with Network Manager and include packages like armbian-config, armbian-zsh etc.
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Specifications

4GB 6 core 64bit battery bluetooth docker eMMC usb-c usb3 wifi wireguard Rockchip RK3399

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

FAQs

  • check previous images from archive
  • join community forums

Simple

BASH or ZSH shell, standard Debian/Ubuntu utilities. Features can be adjusted with menu-driven utility. Login is possible via serial, HDMI or SSH.

Universal

Minimal, server or Desktop. We work with XFCE, Gnome and Cinnamon but more is possible to build: Mate, KDE, Budgie, Deepin, i3, …

Light

No bloatware or spyware. Special utilities are completely optional. Suitable for newcomers and professionals.

Optimized

Distributed images are optimized for flash media (SD/eMMC/SSD) and compacted to real data size.

Fast

Armbian is optimized on kernel and userspace level. ZRAM & ZSWAP support, browser profile memory caching, garbage commit delay.

Secure

Security level can be adjusted with the armbian-config. OS is reviewed by professionals within the community.

Supported

Maintainers and community have deep understanding how HW work. We are seniors with 30+ years of experience in Linux + embedded Linux.

Open

Armbian provides open source build framework to build a distribution of optimised Linux hardware interface for armhf, aarch64 and x86.

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.

Minimal images have very small footprint. They come only with essential packages and build-in systemd-networkd while CLI server images have Network Manager based networking, armbian-config utilities, option to select ZSH as default shell.

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:

Rolling releases from CI pipeline

Build Date: Jul 23, 2024

Distro VariantUser space Kernel TorrentIntegrity Size
 
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Gnome MESA / VPU stable 6.6.41 SHA  ASC 1.2GB
Debian Testing (Trixie) Minimal / IOT stable 6.6.41 SHA  ASC 254MB


Rolling releases are suitable for Linux enthusiasts who want cutting edge packages and have the skills to fix damage that a bad update might cause. If you want stability in a production environment or low headaches as a novice user, skip rolling releases. They are only at, build and ship, Debian testing / Arch / Manjaro / Suse Tumbleweed / Kali / Gentoo support quality level!