Armbian 22.02 Release Announcement (opens in new tab)

(armbian.com)

14 pointstrs-804y ago3 comments

3 comments

trs-80OP4y ago

Important project changes, both technical and not.

Highlights:

- important (non-technical) project changes

- hundreds of kernel and user space related bug fixes

- added rolling Debian (sid) based releases

- added generic stable and rolling UEFI arm64 & x86 images

- added Raspberry Pi images

- upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS images are ready

- new Extensions build framework

- extensive build automation (CI/CD) improvements

Armbian is a Debian-based distribution for Arm-based single-board computers (SBCs).

salmo4y ago

Just installed the Debian flavor of this on a Rockpro64 today after failing to get the upstream Debian installer to work.

Great experience. Got my ansible config for Raspbian working with a minor tweak or 2.

I was worried from the description that it would include a DE and stuff I don’t need for a headless machine, but found it was just made to be easy to install with armbian-config.

I’ll probably migrate my raspbian hosts to it over time. I like the idea of a consistent OS across my single board machines.

Haven’t messed with GPIO, etc. yet. This one is just destined to run grafana and a tsdb.

trs-80OP4y ago

> I was worried from the description that it would include a DE and stuff I don’t need for a headless machine

Oh no (as you learned). In fact, desktop releases are a relatively newer thing for us (in the last couple years).

Glad you are enjoying it! Drop by IRC or forums and say hello any time!

Cheers!

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3 comments

trs-80OP4y ago

Important project changes, both technical and not.

Highlights:

- important (non-technical) project changes

- hundreds of kernel and user space related bug fixes

- added rolling Debian (sid) based releases

- added generic stable and rolling UEFI arm64 & x86 images

- added Raspberry Pi images

- upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS images are ready

- new Extensions build framework

- extensive build automation (CI/CD) improvements

Armbian is a Debian-based distribution for Arm-based single-board computers (SBCs).

salmo4y ago

Just installed the Debian flavor of this on a Rockpro64 today after failing to get the upstream Debian installer to work.

Great experience. Got my ansible config for Raspbian working with a minor tweak or 2.

I was worried from the description that it would include a DE and stuff I don’t need for a headless machine, but found it was just made to be easy to install with armbian-config.

I’ll probably migrate my raspbian hosts to it over time. I like the idea of a consistent OS across my single board machines.

Haven’t messed with GPIO, etc. yet. This one is just destined to run grafana and a tsdb.

trs-80OP4y ago

> I was worried from the description that it would include a DE and stuff I don’t need for a headless machine

Oh no (as you learned). In fact, desktop releases are a relatively newer thing for us (in the last couple years).

Glad you are enjoying it! Drop by IRC or forums and say hello any time!

Cheers!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse