Manuel R

Hello everyone, I’m the original poster and I’ve been successfully running Armbian 23.1.1 on my Orange Pi 3B v1.1.1 for 60 days. The image I used is Armbian_23.11.1_Orangepi3b_bookworm_edge_6.6.2.img.xz, which I downloaded from the Armbian archive https://archive.armbian.com/orangepi3b/archive/ $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Armbian 23.11.1 bookworm Release: 12 Codename: bookworm I successfully used armbian-config to switch to a 6.6.39 kernel: $ uname -a Linux latita 6.6.39-current-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 11 10:49:22 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux Thanks to @heyrict and @Igor for their feedback!

Thanks for your reply, Igor. I also see you're very active in the forums and in Armbian development. Kudos for your contributions! 👏 I'm glad to learn about the history behind Orange Pi OS and Armbian, now it's clear to me the differences between legacy, vendor, current and edge kernels. And as I understand, I can switch between them relatively easily with armbian-config, right? Regarding Armbian releases (the userspace as I understand) for the Orange Pi 3B, do you suggest using the most recent rolling release (previews of 24.8), an archive version (most recent is 23.11.1), or building my own version for the latest stable Armbian release (24.5.1) with a current kernel?

Thank you very much for your response @heyrict, and for pointing me in the direction to build a 6.1 kernel for the Orange Pi 3B 😁. Since I am new to Armbian, I am a little confused about the kernel classification: I downloaded the Debian flavor of the Orange Pi 3B OS from orangepi.org, which has a 5.10 kernel. The images from armbian.com labeled as vendor have a 6.1 kernel, and the edge images have a 6.6 kernel. Why are the Armbian images with the 6.1 kernel labeled as vendor? I just want to understand the naming scheme for the Armbian images. On the other hand, what got me to test Armbian is that I didn’t like the nature of the Orange Pi OS, from the several kernel warnings about being a DEBUG kernel to the customized user space. I want to have a stable and minimal system for my Orange Pi 3B to do mainly networking tasks and nothing graphic. Would you recommend building an Armbian stable release (24.5.1) image with a 5.1 kernel? Is there anywhere I can find such image?

Hi, First of all, kudos to the entire Armbian team! I am fond of SBC Linux systems, and having a single minimalistic distro for all of them is a great initiative. 👏 I am trying to boot Armbian on my Orange Pi 3B without success using the following vendor images: Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.369_Orangepi3b_bookworm_vendor_6.1.43_minimal.img Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.399_Orangepi3b_bookworm_vendor_6.1.43_minimal.img The following edge images work fine: Armbian_23.11.1_Orangepi3b_bookworm_edge_6.6.2.img Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.399_Orangepi3b_bookworm_edge_6.9.9_minimal.img From what I understand from other posts, it seems like anything below Linux 6.6 is broken. I can confirm that images with Linux 6.6.2 and 6.9.9 works on the Orange Pi 3B, while the ones with 6.1.43 does not. Attached is the console log for the trunk.399 vendor image. I am sticking with Armbian 23.11.1 for now; however, I would prefer to use vendor (more stable) images because this system will be for a long-term project. Any comment or suggestion about running stable releases or what stable image is the preferred (or available) for the Orange Pi 3B will be highly apreciated. 😁 boot_24.8.0-trunk.399_Orangepi3b_bookworm_vendor_6.1.43.txt