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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!

GPU acceleration only works with MESA v23.2. In order to get them to work (Bookworm):

  1. Add ‘deb https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main’ to the sources.list
  2. sudo apt update && sudo apt -t unstable install libegl-mesa0 libgl1-mesa-dri mesa-utils mesa-utils-bin
  3. Remove the line added in sources.list, then sudo apt update
  4. Reboot the system.

Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.6

Build Date: Jul 25, 2024

Distro Desktop Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Gnome SHA    ASC 1.2GB
 
* 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: Jul 25, 2024

Distro Type Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Debian 12 (Bookworm) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 179.1MB
 
* 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.

Dedicated applications with Armbian Linux v6.6

Build Date: May 25, 2024

Distro Application Torrent Integrity Size
 
Debian 12 (Bookworm) Home Assistant SHA    ASC 295.7MB
Debian 12 (Bookworm) OpenHab SHA    ASC 962MB
Debian Testing (Trixie) Kali Linux SHA    ASC 426.6MB
 
* 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.
While we try best possible to test provided images flaws can happen. If you experience issues please report those. Until we're able to fix latest builds stick to older images from our archive.

Specifications

Broadcom BCM2711

* 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: