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@dorin Which Armbian image were you successful with? Thanks

@Werner Thanks for the clarification. I learned a lot from a recent Armbian installation on an Allwinner H6 TV box and will now research fully supported hardware with reasonable power and temperature characteristics

@Werner I'm hoping you can offer a point of clarification between hardware that is Supported vs CSC. Is it the case that only the former is amenable to upgrading from the network repositories through something like "apt update && apt upgrade" whereas the latter would need a new .img file to be reflashed? Thanks.

Wanted to add that I purchased a HDMI to DVI cable and hooked up the T95 Mini to a 1920x1080 PC monitor after reversing the change to /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf Everything works fine now. Hopefully this extract from dmesg output means the flash is eMMC and I don't have to open the box to check :-) [ 5.007627] mmc1: new high speed MMC card at address 0001 [ 5.031035] mmcblk1: mmc1:0001 MAG2GC 14.6 GiB [ 5.035956] mmcblk1boot0: mmc1:0001 MAG2GC partition 1 4.00 MiB [ 5.042251] mmcblk1boot1: mmc1:0001 MAG2GC partition 2 4.00 MiB

@MBB I ordered one of these from Amazon to try out with hirsute. Keeping my fingers crossed that I don't have to edit any files since that seems to have worked for you. I can always try focal too. Flashed the hirsute image to a 8GB microSD card and the box booted right up though the 4K LG TV it is connected to flickers/tears. I got all the way through entering setup information and could see the XFCE screen which is still not stable After doing some additional reading, I added the following to /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf which fixed the flickering at initial boot In XFCE, I managed to get into Applications -> Settings -> Display and changed the setting to 1080p which fixed that too. The remaining thing is that the graphical splash screen where it asks for the password at login (or after logout from XFCE) is in a weird resolution. Thanks

@Werner your point about not struggling through support issues is a good one and I will take a look at the units at your link. Thanks P.S. The delayed response is because I'm new and am only allowed to make one post a day

I'm looking for a small and low powered Linux box to run a non-demanding application called nut-server and there is a $30 1G/8G version of this on Amazon that would fit the use case. @SteeMan and @aminders Before I buy one, can you guys check if nut-server is available on the repository for whichever OS build you're running? Thanks