The Armbian 23.02 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 can be used as a 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:
- Support for the Rockchip RK3588 platform has been added and official support has been provided for Radxa Rock 5 and Orange Pi 5 boards based on this platform.
- Improved support for Orange Pi R1 Plus, Raspberry Pi 3, JetHub D1/D1+, Rockchip64, Nanopi R2S, Bananapi M5, Bananapi M2PRO boards.
- The packages are in sync with the Debian and Ubuntu repositories. Added experimental builds based on Debian 12 and Ubuntu 23.04.
- The Linux kernel packages have been updated to version 6.1. Kernel 6.1 has AUFS enabled by default.
- The assembly toolkit, which is planned to be used to build the next release, has been completely redesigned. Among the features of the new toolkit is a simplified logging system, the cessation of using external compilers, a redesigned caching system, and build support on all architectures and operating systems, including official support for WSL2 environments.
- Automated assembly of images developed by the community is provided.
- Added support for various game controllers.
- Added support for Waydroid, a package for running Android on Linux distributions.
- Improved sound settings script.
- Switched to 882xbu driver for wireless USB adapters based on RTL8812BU and RTL8822BU chips.
- The gnome-disk-utility package has been added to builds with graphical environments.
- Added the nfs-common package to all builds except the minimum build.
- The wpasupplicant package has been added to Debian 12 based builds.
Source: opennet.ru