Armbian Distribution Release 21.05

release Linux-distribution Armbian 21.05 , providing a compact system environment for various single-position computers based on ARM processors, Including various modroid models, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, Pine64, Nanopi and Cubeboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic processors, ActionSemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip and Samsung Exynos.

For assembly formation, US packet databases are used and Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.10, but the environment is completely reassembled using its own assembly system with the inclusion of optimizations to reduce the size, increase productivity and apply additional protection mechanisms. For example, the / Var / Log section is mounted using ZRAM and is stored in RAM in a compressed form with data discharge on the drive once a day or when it is completed. Section / TMP is mounted using TMPFS. The project supports more than 30 embodiments of Linux kernel assemblies for different Arm and ARM64 platforms.

in new version :

  • Added packages with the kernel Linux 5.11.
  • Added support for the board D OrangePi R1 Plus.
  • Implemented the ability to build a distribution in Arm / Arm64 base environment.
  • Added additional configurations with DDE desktops (Deepin Desktop Environment) and Budgie.
  • solved problems with the network work on the boards of Nanopi K2 and Odroid.
  • it is possible to download on the BANANA PI M3 board.
  • improved the stability of work on the Nanopi M4V2 board.
  • Improved NVIDIA Jetson Nano Board Support.
  • For Nanopc-T4 boards, the USB-C DisplayPort and EDP output port support is enabled.
  • for RK3399 and Rockchip64 boards included HDMI-CEC and ISP1 camera.
  • on the Sun8i-CE platform, ProNG / TRNG / SHA processor instructions are involved.
  • The ZSH command shell is disabled in favor of Bash.
  • U-BOOT bootloader for allwinner chips database updated to version 2021.04.
  • In CLI assemblies added packages with SmartMontools utilities, an Emulator of Terminator terminal has been added to the XFCE work desk.
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