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Community maintained

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!

arm_64 via UEFI/BIOS for generic virtual board

Usage: Use this board to run armbian on a virtualized environment (eg: QEMU/KVM)

Differences with the ‘uefi-x86’ board:

  • support kernel boot messages on graphical and console/serial devices
  • support prompt on graphical/console devices
  • patches targeting virtualized env on x86 should be added here – when it make sense
Armbian & Khadas are rewarding contributors!

Specifications

Generic aarch64

* 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 images with Armbian Linux v6.6

Build Date: Oct 11, 2024

Distro Variant User space Kernel Torrent Integrity Size
 
Debian 12 (Bookworm) Minimal / IOT (QCOW2) stable 6.6.56 SHA  ASC 728.3 MB
Debian 12 (Bookworm) Minimal / IOT (U-boot bin) stable 6.6.56 SHA  ASC 309.8 KB
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) Minimal / IOT (QCOW2) stable 6.6.56 SHA  ASC 715.6 MB
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) Minimal / IOT (U-boot bin) stable 6.6.56 SHA  ASC 309.8 KB


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!