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Armbian


Last Update: 2024-11-30 16:44 UTC


Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards. It is usually based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu and it supports a wide variety of popular ARM-based devices, including Banana Pi, Cubieboard, Olimex, Orange Pi, Odroid, Pine64 and others. Armbian includes a menu-driven configuration tool along with stock Debian utilities, the Bash shell, and a choice of Cinnamon or Xfce desktop.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 119 (67), 6 months: 128 (68), 3 months: 118 (82), 4 weeks: 68 (156), 1 week: 15 (553)

Average visitor rating: 9.8/10 from 5 review(s).


Armbian Summary
Distribution Armbian
Home Page https://www.armbian.com/
Mailing Lists --
User Forums https://forum.armbian.com/
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://docs.armbian.com/
Screenshots DistroWatch Gallery
Screencasts
Download Mirrors https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported
Bug Tracker https://armbian.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/AR/issues/
Related Websites GitHub
Reviews  
Where To Donate, Buy, or Try

Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2024-11-30: Distribution Release: Armbian 24.11.1
 • 2024-05-27: Distribution Release: Armbian 24.5.1
 • 2024-02-23: Distribution Release: Armbian 24.2.1
 • 2023-11-30: Distribution Release: Armbian 23.11
 • 2023-09-02: Distribution Release: Armbian 23.8.1
 • 2023-05-31: Distribution Release: Armbian 23.05.1
 • 2023-03-02: Distribution Release: Armbian 23.02
 • More Armbian releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2023-09-01 Armbian launches wallpaper contest
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Feature 24.11.1 23.05.1 22.11.1
Release Date 2024-11-30 2023-05-31 2022-11-30
End Of Life      
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 600-2100 400-1900 400-1600
Free Download IMG IMG IMG
Installation -- -- --
Default Desktop GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce GNOME, i3 Cinnamon, Xfce
Package Management DEB DEB DEB
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite LibreOffice LibreOffice LibreOffice
Processor Architecture arm64, x86_64 arm64, x86_64 arm64, x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems      
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes
Asian Language Support Yes Yes Yes
Full Package List 24.11.1 23.05.1 22.11.1
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Version: 23.05.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-11
Votes: 19


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


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


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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