The release of the Armbian 21.08 Linux distribution has been announced, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including different models of Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard powered by Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors.
The builds are created using Debian 11 and Ubuntu 21.04 package bases, but the environment is fully rebuilt using its own build system, incorporating optimizations to reduce size, increase performance, and apply additional security mechanisms. For example, the /var/log partition is mounted using zram and stored in memory in compressed form, with data flushed to the storage once a day or upon shutdown. The /tmp partition is mounted using tmpfs. The project supports more than 30 variations of Linux kernel builds for different ARM and ARM64 platforms.
Release Features:
- Builds with Cinnamon and Budgie desktop environments have been added. As a result, four build options are now available: minimal, server, and builds with Xfce, Cinnamon, and Budgie desktops.
- 3D acceleration is enabled when corresponding support is available.
- An experimental option for building with the KDE desktop has been provided.
- Builds for QEMU have been added.
- Automated language selection at first boot has been implemented.
- The option to use ZSH or BASH shell is now available.
- Linux kernel update to version 5.13 has been implemented.
- For Odroid HC4 boards, support for booting using SPI has been implemented.
- CSC images for Tinkerboard 2 and Rockpi N10 have been added.
- The implementation of the ZFS file system has been updated to OpenZFS 2.1.
- Support for Khadas VIM1-3 & Edge and Avnet Microzed boards has been added.
- For Rockchip boards, VPU support has been included.
- Support for older kernels for OrangepiZero2 and Nvidia Jetson boards has been added.
- The ability to build using Ubuntu 21.04 and Debian 11 packages has been stabilized. Beta support for Ubuntu 21.10 and Debian Sid has been added.
Source: opennet.ru
