The Linux distribution Armbian 21.05 has been released, 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 based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors.
The builds are formed using package bases from Debian 10 and Ubuntu 18.04/20.10, but the environment is completely rebuilt using its own build system, including optimizations to reduce size, increase performance, and apply additional security mechanisms. For example, the /var/log partition is mounted using zram and stored in RAM in a compressed form, with data flushed to the storage device once a day or upon shutdown. The /tmp partition is mounted using tmpfs. The project supports more than 30 variants of Linux kernel builds for various ARM and ARM64 platforms.
In the new version:
- Packages with Linux kernel 5.11 have been added.
- Support for the Orangepi R1 Plus board has been added.
- The ability to build the distribution in ARM/ARM64-based environments has been implemented.
- Additional configurations with DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) and Budgie desktop environments have been added.
- Network issues on Nanopi K2 and Odroid boards have been resolved.
- Booting capability on the Banana Pi M3 board has been provided.
- Stability improvements on the NanoPi M4V2 board have been made.
- Support for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano board has been enhanced.
- Support for USB-C DisplayPort and eDP output ports has been included for the NanoPC-T4 board.
- HDMI-CEC and ISP1 camera support have been included for rk3399 and rockchip64 boards.
- PRNG/TRNG/SHA processor instructions are utilized on the sun8i-ce platform.
- The ZSH shell has been disabled in favor of BASH.
- The u-boot bootloader for boards based on Allwinner chips has been updated to version 2021.04.
- CLI builds have been enhanced with smartmontools utilities, and the Xfce desktop builds now include the terminator terminal emulator.
Source: opennet.ru
