Armbian Weekly Highlights
As the holidays approach, the Armbian team continues to bring you exciting updates and improvements to make your development experience even better. Whether you’re tinkering with new boards over the festive break or updating your systems for the new year, here’s what’s new this week: Infrastructure and Community Updates New Mirror in Ukraine A new …
Armbian Weekly Highlights
Armbian continues its evolution with exciting updates, new features, and bug fixes. Below are the highlights: Build System Enhancements Automatic Board Configurations Synchronization Automatic synchronization of board configurations, streamlining updates. Commit by @igorpecovnik Kernel Updates ST7796 Display Enhancements Fixed the kernel module patch for ST7796. Commit by @redrathnure Added a kernel module (fbtft) for improved ST7796 support. …
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We use stock Debian utilities along with our powerful menu driven configuration tool. We use plain Bash shell and lightweight XFCE based desktop.Lightweight
We use standard boot, config and update methods. Our user-space footprint is minimal and special config utilities are optional.Optimised
A distributed image is compressed to its real data size which starts below 1G. Login is possible via serial, HDMI/VGA or SSH.Fast
We use kernel power management, memory log caching, browser profile memory caching, ZRAM swap, garbage commit delay and video acceleration where applicable.Secure
Armbian is regularly inspected by professionals within a community. This makes Armbian a good starting point for industrial or home usage.Supported
We provide long-term kernel and boot loader updates, quick security fixes, documentation and free end user support. Armbian is a base for many 3rd party projects.How to start?
Find your board and download one of the available images. Archives can be uncompressed with 7-Zip on Windows, Keka on OS X and 7z on Linux (apt-get install p7zip-full). RAW images can be written with Etcher (all OS).
Make sure you have a good & reliable SD card and a proper power supply. Insert SD card into a slot and power the board. First boot takes up to 35 seconds with an average SD Card and on the cheapest board.
Log in as root on HDMI / serial console or via SSH and use password 1234. You will be prompted to change this password. Next, you will be asked to create a normal user account that is sudo enabled (beware of default QWERTY keyboard settings at this stage).