A new update to Armbian with better support for new hardware and new builds.
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Sub-distros aimed at eight or nine new 'odd' SBCs are now added. Kernel 6.6 is used. Several levels of support also exist.
One Armbian is relatively minimal Deb, and another is a Ubuntu-based deriv. (IMHO, skip Canonical stuff at this point, it's got too weird/proprietary).
I've tried Armbian ... really not bad.
However, for Pi's, I still stick to RPI OS for maximum compatibility. It's a perfectly good OS for most every purpose.
Unless there is an overwhelming reason, I stick to whatever is most popular and best supported and run it as close to vanilla as possible.
+1 Armbian is mostly useful for those Aliexpress-special boards with some Chinese chip on them, where it's a step above the vendor whose idea of support is slinging an image on Google Drive and never updating it.
Theo
Wise.
Once in a while you need something else for a particular need, but not so often anymore.
In any case I won't diss Armbian. Fits many needs. If you love it then ........
I liked those distributions because they had one small FAT partition with basic stuff to get kernel up and running. That way I could put everything else on the HDD and only boot kernel from SSD and mount / from HDD to get everything else.
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