Is Armbian not safe to use for production?

[DiegoBM]

I was in the middle of assessing which new firmware to use on a set of OrangePi 5 Max, since the future of Joshua Riek's one is uncertain, and after installing the corresponding Armbian release I was welcomed with a notorious message warning me not to use it in production. I understand that it's community maintained, but is it really unsafe to use for production projects? Since Armbian seems to be the most popular distribution I wanted to double check before moving on to the next.

 

[Werner]

25 minutes ago, DiegoBM said:

I understand that it's community maintained, but is it really unsafe to use for production projects?

Hi

this warning tells you that it is up to you to do a risk assessment if you are fine with the fact, that the device's status is unknown to the Armbian team, that it may break with an upcoming update or never receive an update at all.

[DiegoBM]

Thank you @Werner, by the sound of it, it certainly makes sense to think that it should not be used for production then.

 

Regards