NanoPi Neo 2 with Armbian Linux v6.6 Ubuntu 24.04

[koval]

I just booted the NanoPi Neo2 with the latest "Server images with Armbian Linux v6.6" running Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble). After logging in via SSH, I saw a message stating that this image is for development use only and not for production. Based on your experience, how stable is the development image?

 

Am I correct in understanding that there is no stable image for NanoPi Neo 2 ? 

[SteeMan]

This board is not supported by Armbian.  It is a Community Maintained board.  Which means that the Armbian infrastructure is used to build automated untested builds and make them available for use.  Thus that message.

[eselarm]

There is Debian Bookworm image as well. That variant should have been there for more than a year. Ubuntu Noble is fairly new, so maybe some issues. Kernel is the same.

But vanilla Ubuntu Noble is kernel 6.8, so in theory there might be issues.

I use Armbian Debian (kernel 6.6) on my 32-bit NEOs. no issues. I could switch to Noble but is no priority. I use it on a new Rock3A, works fine there. If you feel you can't handle potential issues, use Bookworm.

[koval]

Thank you for the explanation. 

[Igor]

12 hours ago, eselarm said:

But vanilla Ubuntu Noble is kernel 6.8, so in theory there might be issues.

 

Those problems have nothing in common with Ubuntu or its kernel version. Ubuntu does not support any of those boards and if they boot, this is some random luck.

 

12 hours ago, eselarm said:

If you feel you can't handle potential issues, use Bookworm.

 

In Armbian world, upstream distributions makes no diff as kernel is always ours, Armbian, and the same on Debian and Ubuntu assemblies. We provide different kernels, CURRENT, EDGE, sometimes also LEGACY and VENDOR. CURRENT is primary choice, and is still v6.6.y for all targets. 32bit Neo has obviously different kernel then 64bit Neo, but same version. Then there are things below kernel that cause troubles and are usually per board. The complexity behind can be quite extreme and expensive for time - while wasting time for you, you should pay our bills. This is not the case, so we are forced to drop maintenance at some point as alternative is significantly worse and almost fatal - burning out / bankruptcy. 

 

I am sure there are previous images https://archive.armbian.com/nanopineocore2/archive that works good enough / to some degree. On main download pages, we provide rolling releases, which are assembled and untested. If nobody (usually) upstream broke anything, it works, else it doesn't.

 

13 hours ago, koval said:

Based on your experience, how stable is the development image?

Knowing that is expensive. We can't afford to pay for that information. We don't know.