TinkerBoard
Supported
CLI

Armbian 23.5 Jammy
Kernel 6.1.y, Size: 525Mb, Release date: May 28, 2023
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stable user space packages
desktop

Armbian 23.5 Jammy XFCE
Kernel 6.1.y, Size: 1475Mb, Release date: May 27, 2023
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stable user space packages
  • Severe powering troubles due to Micro USB power connector. It’s recommended to power through GPIO pins to prevent under-voltage issues (instabilities, boot/crash cycles). Powering situation is a little improved/masked on model S.
  • serial console is enabled on UART2 (pin 32, 33, 34=gnd)
  • eMMC flashing (model Tinkerboard S with eMMC) can be done the same way as burning an SD card. Connect your board with USB cable to your computer (Linux or Windows) and eMMC will be seen as a new hard drive. Burn an image to this drive. Wait until it's done, detach from computer and power with your normal PSU.
  • booting from SD card on S model is possible in Maskrom mode.
  • kernel headers are broken on legacy builds
  • video and 3D acceleration

Other supported variants

User spaceInterfaceEUUSAAsiaTorrentKernelIntegritySizeRelease date
 
Armbian BookwormCLI 6.1.ySHA  ASC411MMay 27, 2023
Armbian Bookworm Minimal CLI6.1.ySHA  ASC247MMay 27, 2023
Armbian Jammyi3 desktop 6.1.ySHA  ASC1403MMay 28, 2023
Armbian Jammy Minimal CLI6.1.ySHA  ASC181MMay 27, 2023
 
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Specifications

1000tx 2GB 32bit 4 core UASP bluetooth docker eMMC i2c spi wifi Rockchip RK3288

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

FAQs

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 comes without armbian-config, armbian-zsh, build-essentials, Python, DKMS, … If you are interested in detailed comparison, CLI images also have those packages:

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

 User spaceKernelIntegritySizeRelease date
 
Armbian Lunar minimal CLIrolling6.3.6SHA  ASC183MJun 5, 2023
Armbian Bookworm minimal CLIstable6.3.6SHA  ASC245MJun 5, 2023
Armbian Lunar CLI rolling6.3.6SHA  ASC385MJun 5, 2023
Armbian Bookworm CLI stable6.3.6SHA  ASC409MJun 5, 2023
Armbian Bookworm XFCE desktop stable6.3.6SHA  ASC816MJun 5, 2023
Armbian Lunar XFCE desktop rolling6.3.6SHA  ASC855MJun 5, 2023

  • Debian testing / Arch Linux support quality level
  • Untested automated builds for power users that are able to fix problems on their own
  • Images are receiving updates when main branch changes