Igor

It might be related to Trixie (quick test is checking this on Ubuntu variant). We fix few bugs in user space - some packages were missing due to changes in their relations ... if we are talking about hardware RTC, then it is kernel related. Generic kernels usually have only basic support for most boards we are dealing with, but still, this specific function could work different or not at all. Depending of the version and time of build. Hard to say without investigation. I added battery to my N2+ a while ago and tested RTC functionality. It worked, but its a long time ago since I did that test. I will look into this when possible.

We provide some very tiny builds that can be run as live system on x86 desktop PC: https://www.armbian.com/uefi-x86/ (i use it on all of my x86 machines)

This is confusing for me. What are you actually trying to achieve? What is on Renegade that is not on Rpi?

Try from here: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/dl/rock-5b-plus/archive/

We are slowly releasing v25.11 images and here I did some mess-up, fixed now. We don't offer Bookworm anymore, so Trixie it is. If you need to Bookworm for some reason, you can build on your own or use the one from archive: http://archive.armbian.com/ Attached torrent will download super fast. Armbian_25.11.1_Helios64_trixie_current_6.12.58_minimal.img.xz.torrent

Armbian provides vanilla Debian (or Ubuntu) Cinnamon. In general, touch to the user-space part is minimal, so you are running plain Debian Cinnamon desktop, more or less. And as packages comes from there, bugs follow. Armbian team don't have resources for dealing with desktop. Minor problems only. And as it was already mentioned Exactly. I saw this (recently introduced) problem but since I have absolutely no idea where to look, I removed Cinnamon images from upcoming release. We don't touch Cinnamon nor other desktops beyond installing wallpaper. Probably tasksel installed variant will likely be broken too.

Yes. It is only enabled / working with 6.1 and desktop (Gnome) builds. For mainline based, perhaps 6.18.y ...

afaik wayland is not supported in this version of xfce. You have to use Gnome or KDE.

Yes, but packages hasn't been pushed out yet. We need to test and possibly fix last problems on images. In 10-14 days.

Problem is in Balena decompression of xz files. Use USB imager or something else (or 2 years old version of Balena). It will work. We filed bug when it was discovered, but it was not fixed by this day. We can't fix this app for them ... BTW. Its all here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#flash-to-sd-card

6.6 is LTS kernel https://www.kernel.org/category/faq.html When some security issue is found, it goes into all LTS kernels. Higher version number does not guarantee bigger safety. Most recent has more functional bug fixes and new features and is generally more fragile - bugs / holes yet to be found. Yes, v25.11.1 with 6.12.y https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc4/ doesn't have those problems. At least I could not recreate them. Booting HC4, plugged in two usb devices, all good: https://paste.armbian.com/ibifozegof P.S. Life is deadly dangerous

It is now.

Strange. Well, I tested recently released v25.11.1 images https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-m4-v2/ and they boot (Noble Gnome). I won't be testing older images. (image upload still working in this moment - will take an hour or so to appear on /dl pages) @GuestWho

I tested v25.11.1 https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/ released yesterday - vendor kernel, Gnome desktop, acceleration works, 4k video playing with Chromium, audio works ... Since I don't have model + right on hand, i didn't test it. But its very similar board and I assume it works. It should even boot with image for normal Opi 5 but all peripherals won't be working correctly.

We don't have resources to deal with this question, but I think, in case of this hardware, there is just firmware package (armbian-firmware / linux-firmware) that fits into this. Perhaps some other util. There must be some scripts to scan Debian packages and tell? From my head, I remember iozon3 package (might not be by default on minimal) that is non-free https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/iozone3