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!- Help by contributing improvements to this board (Contribution guide)
- Standard Support and Community Maintained Criteria (Support Criteria)
- Help other users by participating in our forums
- Images here are for 5B, for model 5A can be found here.
- Some eMMC devices are broken on 5A
- PD is broken for the 5B model (background) on most revisions that are in the wild and is causing boot loop. Workaround is to use a stupid / fixed 5-24 volts USB-C power supply.
- Installation to NVME or USB is done via standard armbian install utility (
sudo armbian-install). Make sure to generate partitions and format them before start.
Kernel 6.8.y is at experimental support level! Not all features work but it runs fairy stable.
In order to run Kodi (sudo apt install kodi) with HW acceleration, you have to run kodi under gbm or wayland.
In case you need to run Docker:
update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy update-alternatives --set ip6tables /usr/sbin/ip6tables-legacy
Different images? Missing features? -> Download SDK Looking for compatible accessories? Want to participate in development?
Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.1
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) |
Gnome | trunk MESA / VPU | |
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 v6.1
Build Date: May 25, 2024
| Distro | Type | Extensions | Torrent | Integrity | Size | |||||
| Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) |
Server / CLI | |
SHA | ASC | 470.5MB | |||||
| Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
Server / CLI | |
SHA | ASC | 403.7MB | |||||
| Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
Minimal / IOT | |
SHA | ASC | 224.3MB | |||||
| Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) |
Minimal / IOT | |
SHA | ASC | 219.6MB | |||||
| Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
Minimal / IOT | |
SHA | ASC | 219.8MB | |||||
| * 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. | |||||||||
Bleeding edge images
Build Date: May 25, 2024
| Distro | Type | Extensions | Kernel | Torrent | Integrity | Size | ||||
| Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
Cinnamon | 6.8 | |
SHA | ASC | 1.4GB | ||||
| Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
XFCE | 6.8 | |
SHA | ASC | 1.3GB | ||||
| Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) |
Server / CLI | 6.8 | |
SHA | ASC | 484.3MB | ||||
| Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
Server / CLI | 6.8 | |
SHA | ASC | 456.3MB | ||||
| Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
Gnome | trunk MESA / VPU | 6.8 | |
SHA | ASC | 1.3GB | |||
| Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
XFCE | 6.8 | |
SHA | ASC | 1.3GB | ||||
| Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
Minimal / IOT | 6.10 | |
SHA | ASC | 268.2MB | ||||
| Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) |
Minimal / IOT | 6.10 | |
SHA | ASC | 248.5MB | ||||
| Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
Minimal / IOT | 6.10 | |
SHA | ASC | 260.8MB | ||||
| * Edge kernels are actively developed, so there may be some unreported issues on this images. You should beware of that. | * Most of images are tested with test automation or by Armbian community or official maintainers. | |||||||||
Dedicated applications with Armbian Linux v6.1
Build Date: May 25, 2024
| Distro | Application | Torrent | Integrity | Size | ||||||
| Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
Home Assistant | |
SHA | ASC | 345.8MB | |||||
| Debian Testing (Trixie) |
Kali Linux | |
SHA | ASC | 487.8MB | |||||
| * 3rd party unofficial applications deployment made with official Armbian build framework. Application support is not provided by Armbian team, but you are welcome to use our community forums for support. | ||||||||||
Specifications
1000tx 100tx 16GB 1wire 2500tx 2GB 32bit 4 core 4GB 64bit 8 core 8GB Closed bootloader UASP bluetooth docker eMMC i2c i2s m2 pci spi spi flash usb-c usb3 wifi wireguard Rockchip RK3588
* 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:
- Free support is provided via general project search engine, documentation, community forums or IRC/Discord. Keep in mind this is mostly provided by our awesome community members in a best effort manner and therefore there are no guaranteed solutions.
- For commercial or prioritised assistance:
- book a an hour of professional consultation,
- consider becoming a project partner.
- Reach us out at https://armbian.com/contact,
Rolling releases from CI pipeline
Build Date: Jul 23, 2024
| Distro | Variant | User space | Kernel | Torrent | Integrity | Size | |
| Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
Gnome MESA / VPU | stable | 6.10.0 | | SHA | ASC | 1.3GB |
| Debian Testing (Trixie) |
Minimal / IOT | stable | 6.10.0 | | SHA | ASC | 266.8MB |
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!