Armbian is a highly optimized base operating system specialized for single board computers. It embodies extremely lightweight hardware features with well-known and supported Debian-based user-space experience, extensive build framework and is suitable for industrial or home use.
It comes with a utility for configuring your board, adjusting services, and installing applications.
Features include:
- Lean and standard Debian or Ubuntu based user space with well known APT package manager.
Independent kernel development and maintenance with long term support. - Extensive build framework with fast hybrid assembly of whole operating system and endless capabilities.
- Advanced hardware and OS config and software installation with build-in armbian-config.
- Daily automated stress and upgrade testing on key hardware targets.
- Exclusive support of exotic hardware nobody else supports.
- Stabilized point and rolling distribution of upgrades and OS images.World wide download infrastructure with perfect coverage also in China mainland.
- Extensive build infrastructure to assist CI automation.
- Strong ties to embedded Linux.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | APT |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | armhf, aarch64, riscv64, x86_64 |
| Home Page: | www.armbian.com |
| Developer: | Armbian |
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