Igor

Yes. Vendor kernels are traditionally a pile of sh*, as cheap production as possible. We provide images with experimental kernels v6.5 to try out (at the end of download page). There it might work, but don't complain about several non/badly working things - its not production quality / stability. We are running several GitHub runners on two devices. With vendor kernel, this job was very fragile, while here, so far, it just work.

Welcome to Armbian community support forums! Adjust expectations ? We also need to. Even small group of contributors are throwing thousands of our hours into supporting you, this is not on the plug and play Raspberry Pi level. Developers base here is smaller facing much bigger hardware diversity. You don't have many options. Stock, Armbian or Armbian based OS (with the same problems). I believe stock is best at such things, but also on Armbian this should work ... just analysing and fixing is perhaps not on the consumer grade time frame. Support, where 99% contribute with demand and questions, can only be best effort. Next time, when you will run into problems, provide logs, try to help someone in between, make friends. This helps you most when you are in trouble.

Strange. Vendor asked us to update images with new boot loader that should support most recent board revisions with new memory chips. I don't have that latest board, but those images are: - automatically tested on stable and unstable kernels https://github.com/armbian/os#latest-smoke-tests-results (no issues found, but testing is limited) - manually tested Bookworm with Cinnamon desktop (this) on M2PRO (which is identical to M5, just different size and comes with onboard wireless) . Logs https://paste.armbian.com/elogateles For further diagnosis: - console boot log - pcb photo

Download: https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r6s/ (unofficial WIP support)

Those are developers preview builds, where you can check what works and at some point it will be good enough for some uses cases. In a couple of years, it will be functional on the level of kernel 5.10.y. Download is possible from CI pipeline: https://github.com/armbian/build/releases Boot log: This board is looking for maintainer(s) and (this) forum moderator (contact @Werner).

https://www.armbian.com/odroid-m1/ - kernel 6.1.y LTS

Just a reminder, if someone wants to fix it.

Many of us are using Armbian not just on ARM single board computers but also on servers (bare metal & virtual). We use our builds since we trust it more then Debian, Ubuntu, not to mention other distributions that are recklessly updating and one ends up as an OS tester and not OS user. Personally I use Armbian Jammy on Ryzen 9 workstation with great success. My primary use case is development / productivity. For the road I used to have 13" Dell notebook which recently suddenly died. It was out of warranty so I had to get something new. After some testings of various devices I settled with 12th Gen Intel i5-1240P powered Lenovo. Then I tried many general purpose distros to see how well they work and all had some (minor) troubles ... We are having UEFI images (common image) since some time, but UEFI nor desktops were fine tuned nor ready for such performance daily driver desktop usage. We were close, but not close enough to just run it. Past two weeks we have been lifting general UEFI support, fixed many bugs and what came out is "Armbian ultimate developers desktop build". - improved support in GRUB (armbian wallpaper) & HiDPI GRUB support - all preinstalled applications are normal apt packages - current 5.15.y kernel, Jammy userland (5.19.y has some strange issues) - snapd is not installed (user can install it) - HiDPI support (automated adjustments on big screen resolutions) - NVIDIA graphics acceleration with proprietary driver (x86 only) - Intel graphics acceleration also works out of the box - preinstalled Google Chrome (x86 only) - preinstalled Microsoft Visual Studio Code (x86 only) - ZFS 2.1.5 ready (apt install zfsutils-linux zfs-dkms) - face unlock works perfectly fine on this laptop - installation to SSD drive to dual boot with Windows 10/11 is supported Armbian classical way by transferring actual live image to the prepared partition via nand-sata-install. All you need to do is prepare spare space on your drive, Windows 10/11 or Linux, UEFI support (most if not all hardware for past 10 years has it). I have tweaked images (XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon) a bit to my personal needs, but making changes is welcome. Nice to have: disk encryption within nand-sata-install, small bug fixing, additional DEs. Currently we have CLI, XFCE, Gnome and Cinnamon. Others are too buggy. https://www.armbian.com/uefi-x86/ https://www.armbian.com/uefi-arm64/ Please report where it works and how (well)!

Samples arrived ♥️ HW looks fascinating, Armbian is yet to be ported so can't comment how good this is in realworld. Its shipped with stock Khadas Ubuntu, kernel 5.4.y, which is good to boot something ... Technical specs at CNX.

If you are running Armbian desktop and you like to use Visual Studio Code, open a terminal and run: sudo apt update sudo apt install code

Preparation Supported build environment is Ubuntu Focal 20.04 x64 (minimal iso image). a guest inside a VirtualBox or other virtualization software, a guest managed by Vagrant . This uses Virtualbox (as above) but does so in an easily repeatable way. Please check the Armbian with Vagrant README for a quick start HOWTO, inside a Docker , systemd-nspawn or other container environments (example), running natively on a dedicated PC or a server (not recommended), 20GB disk space or more and 2GB RAM or more available for the VM, container or native OS, superuser rights (configured sudo or root access). Execution apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh This will download all necessary sources, execute compilation and/or build a boot-able image. Most of things will be cached so next run will be extremely faster! Real time examples: Documentation