The Armbian 22.08 Linux distribution has been released, providing a compact system environment for various ARM-based single board computers, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi processors , Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa and Samsung Exynos.
The Debian and Ubuntu package bases are used to form the builds, but the environment is completely rebuilt using its own build system with the inclusion of optimizations to reduce the size, increase performance and apply additional protection mechanisms. For example, the /var/log partition is mounted using zram and stored in RAM in compressed form, 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. An SDK is provided to make it easy to create your own system images, packages, and distribution editions. ZSWAP is used for swap. SSH login provides an option to use two-factor authentication. The box64 emulator is included, allowing you to run programs built for processors based on the x86 architecture. ZFS is used as the file system. Ready-made packages are offered for running custom environments based on KDE, GNOME, Budgie, Cinnamon, i3-wm, Mate, Xfce and Xmonad.
Features of the release:
- Added support for Rockchip RK3588 Rock 5b WIP board.
- Packages are in sync with Debian 11 repositories. Linux kernel packages have been updated to versions 5.15 and 5.19.
- Additional mechanisms for code security analysis are included.
- Strengthened testing of kernel and u-boot update processes, such tests can now be run after each change.
- Implemented the use of automated build processes for weekly rebuilding of images developed by the community.
- Improved documentation for developers and board maintainers.
Source: opennet.ru