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1. Tutorial My most useful Linux terminal commands for Ubuntu/Debian

   By NicoD, September 21, 2019
   • 16 replies
   • 38.1k views
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   • gleam
   • December 25, 2019

2. Armbian OS image flasher. Clean, simple, open-source tool for flashing Armbian or any other disk image to your single board computer.

3. my ordeal with rockpi4 and Penta Sata Hat + Tower

   By tony013, May 24, 2021
   • 5 replies
   • 7.2k views
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   • tony013
   • June 26, 2021

4. Review NanoPi M4 performance and consumption review 1 2 3

   By hjc, September 2, 2018
   • 73 replies
   • 76.8k views
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   • TCB13
   • June 13, 2020

5. hardware hack Nanopi NEO Core + SLB9670's demo board

   By SMZ2014, May 26, 2020
   • 0 replies
   • 2.8k views
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   • SMZ2014
   • May 26, 2020

6. hardware hack Need help in using 4x4 matrix Keypad on Orangepi Zero GPIO

   By blprasad, May 1, 2018
   • 3 replies
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   • martinayotte
   • January 17, 2020

7. hardware hack Need help on GPIO power button

   By znoxx, January 8, 2019
   • 0 replies
   • 2.4k views
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   • znoxx
   • January 8, 2019

8. Nethadone - An adaptive router to train users out of compulsive internet usage using an Opi R1Plus

   By atomic77, July 21, 2024   

   • Research
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   • atomic77
   • July 21, 2024

9. new conky theme: conky.arcs

   By tony013, June 6, 2021
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   • tony013
   • June 6, 2021

10. Review New Review video of the old OPi+ and OPi+2 / Allwinner H3

    By NicoD, November 13, 2020
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    • 3.4k views
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    • NicoD
    • November 13, 2020

11. NO_PUBKEY 93D6889F9F0E78D5 while using apt (e.g. apt update)

    By ag123, June 13, 2025   

    • Tutorial
    • 4 replies
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    • ag123
    • June 14, 2025

12. Novusun CNC Controller Review

    By Verngill, December 25, 2020
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    • 4.7k views
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    • Verngill
    • December 25, 2020

13. Tutorial OctoPrint on armbian 1 2

    By ldiaz, June 16, 2020
    • 35 replies
    • 29.3k views
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    • NickBR
    • June 16, 2023

14. Review ODROID HC1 / HC2 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, August 23, 2017
    • 72 replies
    • 143.4k views
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    • Igor
    • March 9, 2018

15. Review ODROID N1 -- not a review (yet) 1 2

    By tkaiser, February 15, 2018
    • 34 replies
    • 31.9k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 25, 2018

16. Review Official Asus Tinker Board Case

    By TonyMac32, January 16, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 7.6k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • March 21, 2019

17. Tutorial OPI ONE wireless success 1 2

    By rodolfo, May 19, 2016
    • 47 replies
    • 64.8k views
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    • Pop Andrei Lucian
    • July 16, 2017

18. Tutorial OPi Zero GPS ntpserver

    By Guest, August 17, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 7.7k views
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    • Bingo
    • April 19, 2018

19. hardware hack OPI Zero Plus H5 and GPIO library

    By JRD McLAREN, December 14, 2018
    • 4 replies
    • 4.3k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 24, 2018

20. Orange Pi and USB Sound Card

    By ProstoUser, January 28, 2022
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    • 7k views
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    • ProstoUser
    • January 28, 2022

21. Tutorial Orange Pi One - adding USB, analog audio out, TV out, mic and IR receiver 1 2

    By cbm801, February 28, 2016
    • 47 replies
    • 106.3k views
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    • ag123
    • September 5, 2018

22. Review Orange Pi One Plus 1 2

    By Igor, December 26, 2017
    • 38 replies
    • 38.8k views
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    • Werner
    • February 16, 2020

23. Tutorial Orange PI PC - How to use GPIO for push buttons : Tutorial

    By Schmurtz, April 25, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 90k views
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    • JRD McLAREN
    • October 1, 2020

24. Tutorial Orange Pi PoE

    By hmartin, December 24, 2016
    • 17 replies
    • 46.3k views
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    • elegant.sand8729
    • May 8, 2017

25. hardware hack Orange Pi Zero (512MB) heatsink

    By gurabli, November 8, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 6.2k views
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    • DIYprojectz
    • November 22, 2019

26. Tutorial Orange Pi Zero NTP Stratum 1 PPS GPS Server with Armbian OS, Hardware and Software Tutorial

    By schwar3kat, March 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 13.7k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • March 18, 2022

27. Tutorial OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd 1 2

    By sweetpotatoe, January 10, 2017
    • 40 replies
    • 16.7k views
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    • Bernie_O
    • August 17, 2017

28. orangepi H3 and wiringPi (OP) with interrupts

    By mhartje, August 31, 2021
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    • mhartje
    • August 31, 2021

29. hardware hack OrangePi Zero, mainline kernel, SPI LCD + touchscreen

    By adrb, July 5, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 27.3k views
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    • jonokoi
    • June 24, 2020

30. Overlay for NanoPi Neo with ILI9341; Shared SPI with two CS; Allwinner H3

    By G-EDM Developer, April 20, 2023   

    • Tutorial
    • 3 replies
    • 3.6k views
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    • schunckt
    • June 22, 2023

31. hardware hack Overlays

    By TonyMac32, June 9, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 3.7k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • June 9, 2019

32. Pandrost for the Odroid N2 / N2+ and Khadas VIM3

    By NicoD, July 2, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 6.7k views
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    • NicoD
    • July 2, 2021

33. Tutorial Pine64 Clusterboard

    By AZClusterboard, March 20, 2019
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    • 3.6k views
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    • AZClusterboard
    • March 20, 2019

34. Playing With a Fan on an NanoPi M4V2

    By tparys, October 4, 2021   

    • hardware hack
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    • tparys
    • October 4, 2021

35. Tutorial PWM on H3 (and H2+) with mainline kernel

    By zador.blood.stained, March 25, 2017
    • 1 reply
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    • jbuzar
    • April 18, 2017

36. Research Question: ssh/vnc from rockpi 4b to iPad over usbc

    By MEMEs, October 6, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 5.7k views
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    • Igor
    • October 10, 2019

37. Review Quick review of Banana Pi M2+ 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, April 8, 2016
    • 69 replies
    • 46.9k views
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    • Tido
    • August 30, 2018

38. Review Quick review of NanoPi Fire3 1 2 3 4

    By tkaiser, May 18, 2018
    • 96 replies
    • 58k views
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    • alexeyDZ
    • February 24, 2021

39. Review Quick Review of NanoPi K1 Plus

    By tkaiser, September 5, 2018
    • 19 replies
    • 9.4k views
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    • nradulovic
    • June 13, 2019

40. Review Quick review of Orange Pi One 1 2

    By tkaiser, February 21, 2016
    • 31 replies
    • 58.5k views
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    • beic
    • September 13, 2016

41. Review Quick review of Orange Pi PC 1 2 3 4

    By tkaiser, December 13, 2015
    • 96 replies
    • 166.5k views
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    • Magnets
    • January 29, 2017

42. Review Quick Review of Rock960 Enterprise Edition AKA Ficus

    By tkaiser, September 29, 2018
    • 15 replies
    • 12.1k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • October 8, 2018

43. Review Quick review of Solidrun's Clearfog 1 2 3

    By Igor, January 9, 2016
    • 72 replies
    • 52.5k views
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    • Pontus Jon Jensen Karlsson
    • August 31, 2016

44. hardware hack RAM Upgrade - Orange Pi PC

    By SBC-Fan, May 4, 2020
    • 16 replies
    • 13.7k views
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    • SBC-Fan
    • May 4, 2020

45. Tutorial Remote Desktop Fun with Armbian 1 2

    By rodolfo, April 22, 2016
    • 35 replies
    • 58.3k views
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    • fpl
    • December 27, 2020

46. Tutorial Remote Desktop with X11VNC

    By NicoD, May 8, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 23.4k views
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    • shaddow501
    • June 24, 2019

47. Repository for v4l2request hardware video decoding (rockchip, allwinner) 1 2 3 4 6

    By jock, December 10, 2023   

    • Tutorial
    • 160 replies
    • 85.4k views
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    • BoringName
    • Saturday at 11:43 PM

48. Review Review : Khadas VIM3

    By NicoD, July 11, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 13.6k views
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    • Richard.Kang
    • September 12, 2019

49. Review of Station M1: a perfect home server!

    By jeanrhum, January 26, 2021
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    • 3.5k views
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    • jeanrhum
    • January 26, 2021

50. Review Review of the PineBook Pro with Armbian

    By NicoD, June 30, 2021
    • 9 replies
    • 8k views
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    • Werner
    • September 28, 2022

51. Review Review video : NanoPi M4V2

    By NicoD, November 15, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • Stuart
    • November 19, 2019

52. Review Review Video : Odroid N2

    By NicoD, May 2, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • NicoD
    • May 2, 2019

53. Review Review Video : Orange Pi 3

    By NicoD, April 2, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 4.7k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 2, 2019

54. Review Review Video : Pine H64 model B

    By NicoD, April 12, 2019
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    • NicoD
    • April 12, 2019

55. Review Review videos : NVIDIA Jetson Nano

    By NicoD, December 2, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 10.9k views
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    • balbes150
    • March 11, 2021

56. hardware hack Rock64 Audio DAC add-on board ethernet port problem [SOLVED]

    By Dysmas, August 19, 2019
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    • 3.2k views
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    • Dysmas
    • August 19, 2019

57. hardware hack RPi DAQ boards

    By TonyMac32, January 30, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 2.4k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 6, 2019

58. Run Htop on Web Browser

    By @lex, November 25, 2020   

    • Tutorial
    • 1 reply
    • 7.8k views
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    • TRS-80
    • November 25, 2020

59. Tutorial Running 32 bit applications on Aarch64

    By James Kingdon, July 22, 2017
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    • 21.6k views
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    • James Kingdon
    • July 22, 2017

60. Running Armbian on a ZFS, BTRFS, or XFS root filesystem

    By TangerineToupée, October 11, 2021   

    • Tutorial
    • zfs
    • 4 replies
    • 5.7k views
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    • TangerineToupée
    • April 25, 2022

61. Tutorial Running H3 boards with minimal consumption 1 2

    By tkaiser, July 12, 2016
    • 44 replies
    • 81.6k views
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    • Igor
    • January 29, 2019

62. Tutorial S/PDIF output on NanoPI M1

    By AndrewK, August 23, 2016
    • 2 replies
    • 10.9k views
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    • nowy1
    • June 4, 2017

63. Sabrent NT-SS5G Wired 5 Gigabit Ethernet USB3 Adapter Test and Benchmark

    By SpeedSk8R, July 20, 2022   

    • NanoPi M4V2
    • 0 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • SpeedSk8R
    • July 20, 2022

64. Tutorial Samba shares

    By clarkss12, May 24, 2019
    • 6 replies
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    • clarkss12
    • June 1, 2019

65. Research SBC consumption/performance comparisons 1 2

    By tkaiser, August 4, 2016
    • 31 replies
    • 65.3k views
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    • tkaiser
    • July 13, 2017

66. Research sbc-bench 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, July 28, 2018
    • 80 replies
    • 42.9k views
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    • Werner
    • January 4, 2021

67. Research SD card performance 1 2 3 4

    By tkaiser, April 5, 2016
    • 95 replies
    • 161.1k views
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    • Magnets
    • November 10, 2018

68. hardware hack SD communication electrical considerations

    By TonyMac32, September 8, 2018
    • 4 replies
    • 4.5k views
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    • PDP11
    • March 21, 2019

69. Tutorial Self-contained Tensorflow object detector on Orange pi lite + GC2035

    By atomic77, November 21, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 5.9k views
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    • atomic77
    • November 21, 2020

70. Tutorial Setting onboard LEDs with rc.local or systemd

    By Schwemmlandebene, March 6, 2016
    • 5 replies
    • 20.3k views
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    • op1tjaap
    • June 30, 2017

71. Share your Raspberry pi4b wifi through ethernet - turns your rp4b into wifi dongle for all your boards through eth0

    By denni_isl, January 10, 2024   

    • Tutorial
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views
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    • denni_isl
    • January 10, 2024

72. hardware hack Small monochrome displays

    By TonyMac32, December 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 4.2k views
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    • Tido
    • February 18, 2019

73. hardware hack So close (yet still far) from getting the OV5640 camera working on an Orange Pi PC

    By purple_fish, March 12, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 4.2k views
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    • purple_fish
    • March 23, 2019

74. So, you want to run a file server (aka NAS)?

    By TRS-80, March 2, 2022   

    • Tutorial
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    • TRS-80
    • March 2, 2022

75. Research Some experiences with Odroid-N2+ on Debian Bullseye

    By qwr, December 29, 2021
    • 6 replies
    • 10.3k views
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    • usual user
    • March 5, 2022

76. Research Some storage benchmarks on SBCs 1 2

    By tkaiser, August 30, 2016
    • 30 replies
    • 70k views
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    • williamv
    • March 29, 2020

77. hardware hack SPI NOR chips, what to buy for a ZeroPi?

    By stut, March 16, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 4k views
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    • martinayotte
    • April 7, 2020

78. Research Swap on SBC

    By tkaiser, September 9, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 17.6k views
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    • botfap
    • September 11, 2018

79. Review Technology watch list

    By wildcat_paris, April 24, 2016
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    • wildcat_paris
    • April 24, 2016

80. Tutorial Terminal recording on the OrangePi Zero

    By gounthar, January 8, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • gounthar
    • January 8, 2020

81. Testing hardware video decoding (rockchip, allwinner?)

    By jock, November 10, 2021   

    • Tutorial
    • 13 replies
    • 20.6k views
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    • jock
    • December 10, 2023

82. Research The dogafu experiment (DS18b20, unreliable SD-Card & power source)

    By chwe, July 27, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 5.6k views
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    • chwe
    • August 22, 2017

83. Review The Pinebook Pro

    By Werner, January 24, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • Werner
    • January 24, 2021

84. hardware hack Thermostat with orange Pi zero .

    By FRANK333, May 12, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 5.9k views
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    • martinayotte
    • May 20, 2019

85. Tutorial Tinker board - DS1621 temperature sensor

    By zeekoe, September 7, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3k views
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    • zeekoe
    • September 7, 2019

86. Upgrading Armbian from bullseye to bookworm

    By joekhoobyar, March 1, 2024   

    • Tutorial
    • 8 replies
    • 31.1k views
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    • Dawid Furman
    • July 27, 2024

87. Tutorial Use Puppeteer on node.js in Armbian (for web automation)

    By schwar3kat, August 11, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 6k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • August 11, 2019

88. Tutorial User provided kernel config

    By dolphs, September 27, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 7.2k views
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    • dolphs
    • September 27, 2020

89. Tutorial Using 16x2 ('1602') LCD with I2C connector with Orange Pi PC

    By AnonymousPi, May 28, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 33.2k views
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    • EvgeniK45
    • September 25, 2017

90. Tutorial Using different desktop environments on Armbian

    By NicoD, June 2, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 83.7k views
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    • ioncube
    • August 8, 2024

91. hardware hack Using the pins on pine a64

    By MikeAP23, June 3, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 2.8k views
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    • Igor
    • June 4, 2019

92. hardware hack Using usb otg through gpio pins on Orange Pi

    By percu, July 16, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • percu
    • July 16, 2020

93. Review Video : All my SBCs - Specs, why I got them, what the're good/bad for. What's the best for your goal. +30SBCs

    By NicoD, October 24, 2020
    • 14 replies
    • 6.2k views
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    • xwiggen
    • October 29, 2020

94. Video : Armbian Desktop for beginners

    By NicoD, April 20, 2022
    • 0 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 20, 2022

95. Video : Armbian for the Raspberry Pi 4 ! ! ! Preview ! ! !

    By NicoD, November 18, 2021
    • 3 replies
    • 6k views
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    • guidol
    • November 18, 2021

96. Video : Armbian Hirsute XFCE4 - What's new, fixes, tips and benchmarks

    By NicoD, August 31, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 3.8k views
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    • Aaron87
    • April 2, 2022

97. Video : Armbian Jammy KDE Neon on the Raspberry Pi 5

    By NicoD, April 4, 2024   

    • Review
    • Tutorial
    • 0 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 4, 2024

98. Video : Armbian North-America and the work Lanufu does for it

    By NicoD, November 2, 2021
    • 5 replies
    • 3.5k views
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    • sgjava
    • December 11, 2021

99. Video : Armbian on the Khadas VIM 3

    By NicoD, August 4, 2023   

    • Review
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 4, 2023

100. Review Video : Armbian on x86/AMD64 - Radxa Rock Pi X

     By NicoD, December 30, 2021
     • 0 replies
     • 2.5k views
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     • NicoD
     • December 30, 2021

101. Video : Armbian-gamingX86 / A tool to install Steam, PPSSPP, Retropie and Xonotic on Armbian Jammy/Noble X86

     By NicoD, October 23, 2024   

     • Tutorial
     • 0 replies
     • 2.6k views
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     • NicoD
     • October 23, 2024