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Hello, I want to thanks armbian. I installed armbian on my Orange Pi PC to build a music streaming platform, with digital crossover to perform active bi amplification. armbian performed perfectly out of the box for that purpose. The thermal behaviour of the OPi PC is very good (much better than with the openelec version). I had issues with my project, but none related to armbian or Orange Pi PC I wrote a wrap up of my experiments here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/293362-orange-pi-digital-crossover-2x-usb-amps-wrap-up.html Best regards, JMF

Dear Igor, Thank you for the quick reply. So I will ge with the legacy kernel, and stay tuned. Thank for your efforts to provide those reliable distributions for the H3 platform, that would be useless without armbian and Openelec... Best regards, JMF

Hello, I'm new to SBC and have to fire my newly received Orange Pi PC. Should a Vanilla kernel download be soon available, or is it adviced to go to the legacy one? I would be happy to know, in order to start my project on a base that would not need to big modifications for the coming monthes. Best regards, JMF

Dear all, I come with a basic question: is armbian for H3 advanced enough and without roadblocks future proof, or is it still risky? Should it soon become mainline or for one or more years, it will be mainly for advanced users? I need to set-up a Openelec platform with software DSP features (ALSA, LADSPA, SOX...). I need easy to setup audio features (over USB, I2S, HDMI). I'm far from being a Linux expert. I don' t know how to compile an image, I discover SBC world.... I don't want to enter in too steep learning curve, and be able to focus on my project. Are H3 and Orange pi products ok for me, or would you advice to go directly to Rpi? I understand that there is a stable Legacy kernel, but that building the images still relay strongly on a motivated but small community, and that 4.x kernels are not off the shelf yet. Thank you for your advice, Best regards, JMF