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  • New Armbian - Better and with Wider Support

    From 56g.1173@3:770/3 to All on Sun Dec 17 21:18:32 2023
    https://news.itsfoss.com/armbian-23-11-release/

    Armbian 23.11 Release Supports New Boards And Adds
    New OS Builds

    A new update to Armbian with better support for new
    hardware and new builds.

    . . .

    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).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to All on Wed Jan 3 10:37:10 2024
    On 03/01/2024 05:51, 56g.1183 wrote:
    On 12/17/23 9:18 PM, 56g.1173 wrote:
    https://news.itsfoss.com/armbian-23-11-release/

    Armbian 23.11 Release Supports New Boards And Adds
    New OS Builds

    A new update to Armbian with better support for new
    hardware and new builds.

    . . .

       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.

    --
    “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

    H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Theo@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Wed Jan 3 12:20:32 2024
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    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

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From 56g.1183@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Fri Jan 5 01:38:26 2024
    On 1/3/24 5:37 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 03/01/2024 05:51, 56g.1183 wrote:
    On 12/17/23 9:18 PM, 56g.1173 wrote:
    https://news.itsfoss.com/armbian-23-11-release/

    Armbian 23.11 Release Supports New Boards And Adds
    New OS Builds

    A new update to Armbian with better support for new
    hardware and new builds.

    . . .

       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.

    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 ........

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Nikolaj Lazic@3:770/3 to All on Mon Jan 29 14:51:36 2024
    Dana 03 Jan 2024 12:20:32 +0000 (GMT), Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> napis'o:
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    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.

    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.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)