The Armbian 21.05 Linux distribution has been released, providing a compact system environment for various ARM-based single board computers, including various 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.
Builds are based on Debian 10 and Ubuntu 18.04/20.10 package bases, but the environment is completely rebuilt using its own build system, including optimizations to reduce size, increase performance, and apply additional protection mechanisms. For example, the /var/log partition is mounted using zram and stored in RAM in a compressed form with data flushed to the drive once a day or at shutdown. The /tmp partition is mounted using tmpfs. The project supports more than 30 Linux kernel builds for various ARM and ARM64 platforms.
In the new version:
- Added packages with Linux 5.11 kernel.
- Added support for Orangepi R1 Plus board.
- Implemented the ability to build the distribution in environments based on ARM/ARM64.
- Added additional configurations with DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) and Budgie desktops.
- Fixed network issues on Nanopi K2 and Odroid boards.
- Enabled booting on Banana Pi M3 board.
- Improved stability on the NanoPi M4V2 board.
- Improved support for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano board.
- The NanoPC-T4 board includes support for USB-C DisplayPort and eDP output ports.
- For rk3399 and rockchip64 boards, HDMI-CEC and ISP1 camera are included.
- The sun8i-ce platform uses PRNG/TRNG/SHA processor instructions.
- The ZSH command 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.
- Packages with smartmontools utilities have been added to CLI builds, terminatortor terminal emulator has been added to builds with Xfce desktop.
Source: opennet.ru