The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 21.08 has been presented, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including various models of Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale processors / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip and Samsung Exynos.
Debian 11 and Ubuntu 21.04 package bases are used to generate builds, 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 drive once a day or upon shutdown. The /tmp partition is mounted using tmpfs. The project supports more than 30 Linux kernel builds for different ARM and ARM64 platforms.
Features of the release:
- Added builds with Cinnamon and Budgie desktops. As a result, four build options are provided: minimal, server, and builds with Xfce, Cinnamon, and Budgie desktops.
- Enabled 3D acceleration when supported.
- Provided an experimental build option with the KDE desktop.
- Added builds for QEMU.
- Implemented automatic language selection on first launch.
- The option to use the ZSH or BASH shell is provided.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to release 5.13.
- Odroid HC4 boards now support booting using SPI.
- Added CSC images for Tinkerboard 2 and Rockpi N10.
- The ZFS file system implementation has been updated to OpenZFS 2.1.
- Added support for Khadas VIM1-3 & Edge and Avnet Microzed boards
- Rockchip boards include VPU support.
- Added support for older kernels for OrangepiZero2 and Nvidia Jetson boards.
- The ability to build using Ubuntu 21.04 and Debian 11 packages has been stabilized. Support for Ubuntu 21.10 and Debian Sid has been added as a beta version.
Source: opennet.ru