Armbian Weekly Highlights
Armbian continues to evolve with key updates across board configurations, hardware support, and kernel enhancements. This week introduces significant improvements, including switching CM3588 to mainline A-TF and upgrading RK322X-Box and RK3318-Box to U-Boot v2025.01. Armbian’s updated images now come with Home Assistant Core 2025.3 preinstalled, offering users enhanced smart home integration. Hardware support sees notable …
Armbian v25.2
Dear Armbian Community, We are thrilled to announce Armbian Release 25.2, packed with significant updates across our entire ecosystem! These updates are aimed at enhancing functionality, expanding hardware support, and refining the user experience for both developers and everyday SBC users. Let’s dive into the exciting new features! Key Highlights New Board Support: Rock 2A …
Simple
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).