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Reader supplied reviews for Armbian
Average rating
9.8 from 5 review(s)
Version: 23.05.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-11
Votes: 19
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Tried both the Jammy verson and the Bookworm CLI version on an OrangePi 5. Both works flawlessy, the Debian-based Bookworm with slightly newer packages. After installing the Bookworm CLI-version, you end up as root in a shell. Run 'apt update', 'apt upgrade', 'apt install tasksel', 'tasksel'. Choose your DE and other options with the spacebar. Tab to 'Ok' and push 'Enter'. When all is finished, reboot with '/sbin/init 6'.
I prefer to have my '/home'-directory on a seperate partition, on my OPi5 it is a NVmE-card. I add this to '/etc/fstab' while still in the root shell, before first reboot. Armbian uses UUID as partition identificator. Find it with 'blkid'.
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Version: 22.11.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-02
Votes: 20
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It was the newest 23.02.02 version I downloaded for a normal 64 bit Intel/AMD PC.
It came as a 2 GB img file which inflated to 9 GB+ on a USB stick using Belena Etcher.
It doesn't use persistence, but I did find an option to save the session and it seems to work fine.
Bad start as I noticed the spinning dotted circle favoured by Microsoft as it loaded - please drop that unnecessary nod to Windows, you can do better and are risking a possible lawsuit too.
Not the quickest loader, but that may be down to the USB2 stick I used and it does run at an acceptable speed once it's eventually loaded.
Comes with Google Chrome (and Firefox for all you purists) along with a fairly sensible set of common programs without appearing too bloated.
I know it's not really meant for 'normal' PC's but it does a good job as a portable OS and barely uses 1/2 a GB of RAM to boot to the desktop.
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Version: 22.08.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-18
Votes: 21
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i used this distribution on my Orange Pi PC for more than 3 years, while there was no other distributions supporting the board officially. this was the best experience, for me on using GNU\Linux in 12 years. I am moving to Arch-Linux but before that it was good enough that i searched for X86_64 version of this distribution for my AMD PC. it is very satisfying and pleasing to use. in other word it is just Awesome. butt i wish there was a i3wm desktop version of it, specially for boards with 1GB RAM
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Version: 22.05.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-09
Votes: 20
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It is like a 'Swiss Army knife' for Single Board Computers because it supports a lot of boards.
I bet that this distro will go up in Dstrowatch tops.
I have it installed on Asus Tinker Board ( armhf ) with a Samsung TV display . internet from my phone .
The keyboard I used is a mini keyboard with combo pad with remote connection.
The sound worked with the TV and also connected with my Huawei CM510 using the bluetooth.
No firmware needed.
Installation is easy. update same . based on Debian.
Kudos to developers !
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Version: 22.02.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-25
Votes: 21
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The distro officially supports over 50 SBC's and has many more community supported boards that can be built using the Armbian build system. There is extensive documentation, a very active forum and actively monitored IRC chat and Discord channels. New board maintainers are welcome, as are developers, moderators, web designers, and other community helpers
Simple Powerful menu driven configuration tool along with stock Debian utilities. BASH shell and lightweight XFCE based desktop.
Fast Boot loader and kernel optimizations, memory caching, ZRAM swap and video acceleration where applicable.
Secure images are made fully automated from sources. Releases are PGP signed and code is regularly inspected by community.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Armbian
Version: 23.05.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-11
Votes: 19
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Tried both the Jammy verson and the Bookworm CLI version on an OrangePi 5. Both works flawlessy, the Debian-based Bookworm with slightly newer packages. After installing the Bookworm CLI-version, you end up as root in a shell. Run 'apt update', 'apt upgrade', 'apt install tasksel', 'tasksel'. Choose your DE and other options with the spacebar. Tab to 'Ok' and push 'Enter'. When all is finished, reboot with '/sbin/init 6'.
I prefer to have my '/home'-directory on a seperate partition, on my OPi5 it is a NVmE-card. I add this to '/etc/fstab' while still in the root shell, before first reboot. Armbian uses UUID as partition identificator. Find it with 'blkid'.
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Project: Armbian
Version: 22.11.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-02
Votes: 20
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It was the newest 23.02.02 version I downloaded for a normal 64 bit Intel/AMD PC.
It came as a 2 GB img file which inflated to 9 GB+ on a USB stick using Belena Etcher.
It doesn't use persistence, but I did find an option to save the session and it seems to work fine.
Bad start as I noticed the spinning dotted circle favoured by Microsoft as it loaded - please drop that unnecessary nod to Windows, you can do better and are risking a possible lawsuit too.
Not the quickest loader, but that may be down to the USB2 stick I used and it does run at an acceptable speed once it's eventually loaded.
Comes with Google Chrome (and Firefox for all you purists) along with a fairly sensible set of common programs without appearing too bloated.
I know it's not really meant for 'normal' PC's but it does a good job as a portable OS and barely uses 1/2 a GB of RAM to boot to the desktop.
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Project: Armbian
Version: 22.08.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-18
Votes: 21
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i used this distribution on my Orange Pi PC for more than 3 years, while there was no other distributions supporting the board officially. this was the best experience, for me on using GNU\Linux in 12 years. I am moving to Arch-Linux but before that it was good enough that i searched for X86_64 version of this distribution for my AMD PC. it is very satisfying and pleasing to use. in other word it is just Awesome. butt i wish there was a i3wm desktop version of it, specially for boards with 1GB RAM
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Project: Armbian
Version: 22.05.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-09
Votes: 20
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It is like a 'Swiss Army knife' for Single Board Computers because it supports a lot of boards.
I bet that this distro will go up in Dstrowatch tops.
I have it installed on Asus Tinker Board ( armhf ) with a Samsung TV display . internet from my phone .
The keyboard I used is a mini keyboard with combo pad with remote connection.
The sound worked with the TV and also connected with my Huawei CM510 using the bluetooth.
No firmware needed.
Installation is easy. update same . based on Debian.
Kudos to developers !
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Project: Armbian
Version: 22.02.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-25
Votes: 21
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The distro officially supports over 50 SBC's and has many more community supported boards that can be built using the Armbian build system. There is extensive documentation, a very active forum and actively monitored IRC chat and Discord channels. New board maintainers are welcome, as are developers, moderators, web designers, and other community helpers
Simple Powerful menu driven configuration tool along with stock Debian utilities. BASH shell and lightweight XFCE based desktop.
Fast Boot loader and kernel optimizations, memory caching, ZRAM swap and video acceleration where applicable.
Secure images are made fully automated from sources. Releases are PGP signed and code is regularly inspected by community.
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