The release of the Armbian 22.02 Linux distribution has been announced, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including models like Raspberry Pi, 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 utilize package repositories from Debian and Ubuntu, but the environment is fully rebuilt using its own build system, incorporating optimizations to reduce size, increase performance, and implement additional security mechanisms. For example, the /var/log partition is mounted using zram and stored in RAM in a compressed form, with data being flushed to storage once a day or on shutdown. The /tmp partition is mounted using tmpfs. The project supports over 30 variations of the Linux kernel for different ARM and ARM64 platforms.
Release Features:
- The capability to create continuously updated builds based on packages from Debian Sid (unstable) has been implemented alongside the Debian 11-based builds.
- Builds based on the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 release have been prepared.
- Stable and continuously updated builds for boards based on x86 and ARM architectures using UEFI have been implemented, created using the Grub bootloader from Debian/Ubuntu instead of u-boot.
- 64-bit builds specifically optimized for Raspberry Pi boards have been added.
- A new framework for connecting extensions to the build system (Extensions Build Framework) has been introduced.
- Build testing in continuous integration systems has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru
